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To commemorate Baltimore native Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993) on the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Reginald F.
Lewis Museum presents Thurgood’s Baltimore: the Education
of a Revolutionary, 1908 – 1938. This Community Space exhibition
examines the history and context of the Marshall’s Baltimore
upbringing and rise to national prominence.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was a product of the
Baltimore in which he grew up. That Baltimore consistently
drew legacies from the 19th century civil rights struggle. It took
advantage of newly created opportunities of the early twentieth
century. And it infused many African American youngsters with
the determination to overthrow Jim Crow.
Tracing his life from his earliest days through his ascendancy to
Chief Legal Counsel of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, this exhibition returns the Thurgood
Marshall lore to its Maryland roots. We would go on to achieve
much more in life, but this is the story of where he started.
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Walking in The Footsteps series, 2006,
courtesy of Stephen Marc
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A People’s Geography: The Spaces of African American
Life complements the Maps: Finding Our Place in the World exhibition at the Walters Art Museum and is part of the 2008 citywide Festival of Maps in Baltimore. Through the eyes of contemporary artists, our exhibition imagines the relationships African Americans have to the geography of their environment. Where did we come from, where have we been, and what we have created along the way? A People’s Geography illuminates the spaces African Americans have navigated, from slavery to the present.
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A panel featuring artists Stephen Marc, Jason Miccolo
Johnson, and Deborah Willis, and scholar Dr. Suzette
Spencer, a professor of Afro-American Studies at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison will discuss the exhibition
A People’s Geography. Themes will include migration,
displacement, and the creation of African American
community. This program is in conjunction with the
Exhibition: A People’s Geography: The Space of African
American Life.
Free with Museum Admission.
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Hale Aspacio Woodruff was one of America’s important creative pioneers. His legacy as an artist and teacher endures in the various styles, including paintings, prints, drawings, and murals, in which he worked. Born in Cairo, Illinois in 1900, Woodruff grew up in Nashville Tennessee, but his work took him to Atlanta,
New York, Paris, and Mexico City. In his block prints from the 1930s, Woodruff uses a social realist style to document the harsh realities of Depression-era life for African Americans in the south. This exhibition of works from our permanent collection fi nds Woodruff
bearing witness to the deprivation and pride, the struggle and strength that define African American communities. |
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