We Who Believe In Freedom
April 6 – July 12, 2019
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
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“The three men featured in this quilt are iconic thought leaders on the progressive timeline, who represent outcomes of the enormous impact of the Civil Rights Movement against the backdrop of slavery and Jim Crow, their voices mark milestones of the dreams, aspirations and collective actions directed toward the positive identity formation, uplift and rise of a people facing their historic fight for truth, justice and equality. While their solutions of the plight of the black man and woman in America are philosophically varied and challenging in approach, utilizing non-violence, radical activist protest and political action as differing strategies, their work engendered local, national and global constituents to support the cause of freedom. Christian minister, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and Muslim minister, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, in their twentieth century efforts, build the muscle of a public consciousness and awareness that results in the evidentiary, twenty-first century, successful election of the first African-American and forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama in 2008.”
L’Merchie Frazier, Director of Education, Museum of African American History, Boston, MA
April 6 – July 12, 2019
