Pre-Civil War, Texas Black Legislatures

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Original Title: Pre-Civil War, Texas Black Legislatures
Date: 1987
Creator: Kermit Oliver See all items with this value
Description: Oliver's painting depicts vanguard Black politicians from the Reconstruction period following emancipation. Radical Reconstruction saw the election of dozens of Black lawmakers in former slave states like Texas. After 1897, Texas didn't elect another Black legislator until 1966.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; Law See all items with this value; Politics See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; American South; Racial uplift; Reconstruction; State government; Suffrage
Type: Painting
Medium: acrylic
Measurements: 35 in x 48 1/2 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc170
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0056
Rights: All rights held by the University Museum at Texas Southern. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact University Museum, Texas Southern University umuseum@gmail.com Attn: Museum Director. Materials not created by Texas Southern University may still be under copyright. Additional materials may be presented for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law.
Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; HBCU Community: Connection to Community; Texas Southern University Collections