Black Legislators of the Reconstruction Period

Original Title: Black Legislators of the Reconstruction Period
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
Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection

Media: TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0056/DSC_3458.jpg; TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0056/DSC_3458-2.jpg