“The Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America”

By honoring prominent African American men and women from the colonial era to the twentieth century, pioneering African American artist Charles White’s spectacular artwork reveals a necessary corrective to visual depictions of American history. Included are Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Marian Anderson, Sojourner Truth, and Booker T. Washington, among others. Following this study, White painted the 18'-by-12' mural at Hampton University.

★ Charles White, Study for The Contribution of the Negro to Democracy in America, signed and dated; tempera and graphite on illustration board, 1943. #27128