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Negro USA: A Graphic History of the Negro People in America, 1949

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

Scope and Contents

Issued as Workshop Prints No. 2 The Graphic Workshop, this folio contains 21 of the original 26 prints. The cover page includes a stamp of Taller De Grafica Popular, Mexico, D.F.

Prints included:

  1. 1) Slave auction / Leonard Baskin
  2. 2) Comrade / Leonard Baskin
  3. 3)"Together We'll Win..." / Roy DeCarava
  4. 4) United labor / Antonio Frasconi
  5. 5) Dollar Liberty / Antonio Frasconi
  6. 6) Plantation / Antonio Frasconi
  7. 7) Slave ship / Antonio Frasconi
  8. 9) Disciples of John Brown / Bud Handelsman
  9. 10) The artisan and the governor of Virginia / Charles Keller
  10. 11) Terror of the Klan / Louise Krueger
  11. 12) Enslavement / Louise Krueger
  12. 14) Runaway slave / Jacob Landau
  13. 15) Reconstruction legislator / Al Lass
  14. 16) Underground railroad fording a stream / Jacob Lawrence
  15. 17) Race riot / Jerry Martin
  16. 18) Negroes in the Civil War / Jerry Martin
  17. 19) Anti-slavery petitions / Leona Pierce
  18. 21) Migration north / Leona Pierce
  19. 22) Frederick Douglass, teacher / Jim Schlecker
  20. 25) Negro U.S.A. / Charles White
  21. 26) Our war / Charles White

Prints not included:

  1. 8) The standard bearer / Robert Gwathmey
  2. 13) Nat Turner / Jacob Landau
  3. 20) Tenement / Leona Pierce
  4. 23) First to fall / Jim Schlecker
  5. 24) Peter Salem at Bunker Hill / Edward Walsh

Dates

  • Creation: 1949

Repository Details

Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository

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