Author Archives: deidredeanne

The fact that transportation was a segregated business in the American South for many decades of the twentieth century is well known. Many older African Americans who grew up in the South painfully remember the time when black passengers had to sit in the back of busses or use separate train compartments; and when trainContinue reading “The Desegregation of Airports in the American South”

‘History Refused to Die’ shows off the masterful works made by self-taught artists from the American South Thornton Dial, “History Refused to Die” (2004) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2014 WNYC’s art critic Deborah Solomon predicts that many of the artists featured inContinue reading “For the First Time, See Historically Excluded Black Folk Artists at the Met”