History Refused to Die: The Enduring Legacy of African American Art in Alabama

by Karen Wilkin, Sharon Holland, Horace Randall Williams

Book Overview

After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Alabama produced an impressive number of African American self-taught artists whose work particularly focused on the Civil Rights Movement and on aspects of history that led to it. This happened, in part, because the action was right on their doorsteps: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Selma March, the murder of four little girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692365206
• ISBN13: 9780692365205
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Tinwood Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.2" x 12.3"