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Collection · 24 prints

Civil Rights & African American Life

Pictures of African American life and of the long work for civil rights, gathered in one place. Aaron Douglas's murals and magazine covers carry the confidence of the Harlem Renaissance in bold silhouette; Charles Alston draws a crowded Harlem sidewalk; Winslow Homer paints a family in Virginia readying a costume for the carnival.

Beside them stand the faces of the struggle: Frederick Douglass, young and later white-haired, Sojourner Truth at her knitting, W.E.B. Du Bois on the cover of The Crisis, and the posters of the Second World War that honoured Dorie Miller and Joe Louis.

The later posters carry the movement's own words: the placard Honor King: End Racism! from 1968, a memorial portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Emory Douglas's Black Panther newsboy, and Rachael Romero's linocuts of Malcolm X and of the 1970s boycott of apartheid South Africa.

Each print is a 12-ink giclée, framed or unframed, and ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.

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Aaron Douglas — Aspects of Negro Life | Fine Art Print - 9ArtPrints
Dressing for the Carnival by Winslow Homer — A costume is stitched onto a carnival reveler
Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South by Aaron Douglas — A banjo player, dancers and field workers beneath a single star
Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers by Aaron Douglas — A saxophonist on a great cog wheel amid soaring towers
Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting by Aaron Douglas — Drummers and a leaping dancer in layered blue silhouette
Opportunity, Vol. 3, No. 36 (Cover) by Aaron Douglas — A black profile head lifted toward a star and a domed skyline
Opportunity, Vol. 4, No. 42 (Cover, June 1926) by Aaron Douglas — A seated blue figure outlined in red beside a rising sun
Frederick Douglass (Daguerreotype) — Frederick Douglass in a gilt-matted daguerreotype case
Frederick Douglass by George Kendall Warren — Frederick Douglass, white-haired, turned in three-quarter view
Sojourner Truth: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance — Sojourner Truth knitting beside a vase of flowers
Portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois (The Crisis, February 1918) by Frank Walts — W.E.B. Du Bois in grey chalk, emerging from a black ground
Harlem Street Scene by Charles Henry Alston — A crowded Harlem sidewalk beneath a drugstore sign
Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (Dorie Miller) by David Stone Martin — Dorie Miller in sailor's whites, a medal on his chest
United We Win by Howard Liberman — Two workers side by side beneath the Stars and Stripes
Pvt. Joe Louis Says: We're Going to Do Our Part — Joe Louis in a steel helmet, charging with fixed bayonet
Apartheid No by Rachael Romero — A bearded face caught among strands of barbed wire
Condemn the South African Apartheid Regime and Support the International Boycott by Rachael Romero — A lined, level-gazing face before bands of geometric
Del Monte Profits from Apartheid by Rachael Romero — A young woman in a striped headscarf before rows of workers
The People United Will Never Be Defeated by Rachael Romero — Seven resolute faces and two raised fists
Malcolm X by Rachael Romero — Malcolm X in glasses, cut in white lines from a black ground
The Black Panther: All Power to the People by Emory Douglas — A boy holding up a newspaper, his mouth open in a shout
Honor King: End Racism! — Four lines of heavy black capitals on a cream sheet
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929–1968: In Memoriam — Dr. King ringed by the names of cities
Emancipation by Thomas Nast — A freed family at the hearth, ringed by scenes of slavery and freedom