“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits”, April 4 – June 14 *The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco presents an exhibit of 70 prints which “explores photography’s role in shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over the past 150 years.”
Represented are those men and women who have “resisted” in assorted ways, from activist Angela Davis to singer Jessye Norman, from labor leader A. Philip Randolph to boxer Joe Louis.
“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits”
MoAD – The Museum of the African Diaspora, 4/4 – 6/14/09
685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA
“Let your Motto be resistance! Resistance! RESISTANCE! No opposed people have ever secured Liberty without resistance” – abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, 1843
Images: Angela Davis, Martin Luther King, Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963