"Freedom Now" (1963) by Reginald Gammon. From 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,' published by D.A.P. & @tate⠀ ⠀ Curators @markgodfrey1973 & @zoe.whitley begin their essay: "We begin in 1963 with the formation of Spiral, a ‘group of Negro artists’ as they called themselves, who assembled in New York to work out a shared position on what it meant to make art within the wider context of the Civil Rights movement. 'Soul of a Nation' takes into account major events such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; the murder weeks later of four little girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama; the commanding oratory and assassinations of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Watts Rebellion; unifying calls for Black Power and global pan-Africanism; the formation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the subsequent violent suppression of its leaders; Angela Davis’s imprisonment; and the Attica Prison uprising. Many of the illustrated artworks refer explicitly to these events and people. As important is the wider cultural landscape in which visual artists were working; where John Coltrane revolutionized jazz music, Baraka set alight the literary world with contentious poems and plays, Marvin Gaye recorded What’s Going On, and Nigeria convened what was then the largest ever pan-African arts festival…"⠀ ⠀ Read more via linkinbio!⠀ ⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many are reopening or offering curbside pickup! A list of #blackownedbookstores is here: https://manylink.co/@artbook⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ #soulofanation #reginaldgammon #backpower #soulofanation #freedomnow #protest #civilrights⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWu6cXJoT0/?igshid=1eihxbt5m7y5o
