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Teaching African American History Through Art
During Black History Month (February) at Reed College, the art department mounted an exhibition of the work of renowned African American artist Jacob Lawrence. The artwork included museum prints from the Harlem Renaissance-era painter’s “Migration if the American Negro” series, as well as an original silkscreen held by Reed’s Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, which depicts the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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