Art and the African-American Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Disobedience Black Power Movement Brown Vs. Board of Education Martin Luther King Jr. Historical/Cultural Impacts

AfriCOBRA

Founder of AfriCOBRA Jeff Donaldson First African-American to Earn Ph.D. for Northwestern University

Wives of Shango Jeff Donaldson 1969 Water Color on and mixed-media on Paper 30” x 22” “Black” Aesthetic Use of Figures and Vivid Colors Myth from faith of the Yoruba of Western Nigeria

UNITE Barbara Jones-Hogu 1971 Screen Print 22 ½” x 30” Signature use of repetitious lettering Addition of Color and Stylistic Expression “Super-real” Black Independence and Self-Determination

The Wall of Respect William Walker Notable African Americans In music, athletics, politics, etc. Inspired the formation of the artist group AfriCOBRA

“Black visual art has innate and intrinsic creative components which are characteristic of our ethnic group.” – Jeff Donaldson