Month: October 2014

Martin Luther King Singers Salutes Undine Smith Moore,” benefit concert at Our Lady, Queen of Peace Chapel in New York in 1982

Processing Fun: Undine Smith Moore’s Teaching Files

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“Revealing Her Story: Documenting African American Women Intellectuals” is a two-year project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to arrange and describe the personal papers of nine African American women writers, artists and musicians. Collections included in the project are the Pearl Cleage papers; additions to the Delilah Jackson papers; the Samella Read More …

John Biggers working on sketches for murals.

Realism, Symbolism, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

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In the late 1990s, as the long career of painter, sculptor, and university professor John Biggers was drawing to a close, the artist received letters from admirers commenting on his life’s work. A native of Gastonia, North Carolina, Biggers spent most of his career in Houston, Texas. There, he founded the Art Department at Texas Read More …