Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and scu
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller in 1910
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (c. 1895)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Mary Turner, painted plaster sculpture,1919
Dark Hero, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
May 1918 lynchings
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On May 16, 1918, a plantation owner was murdered, prompting a manhunt which resulted in a series of lynchings in May 1918 in southern Georgia, United States. White people killed at least 13 black peop
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
…Black artists of her generation." Through adopting a horror-based figural style and choosing to depict events of racial injustice, like the lynching of Mary Turner, Warrick used her platform to address the societal traumas of African Americans. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on…
Historical marker in Lowndes County, Georgia
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906