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Otis Briar
(American, 1892 - 1964)
Colored Girl, 1937
Drypoint on paper
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of Pat Underwood and Julie Briar-Kuecker, 1999.8
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Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 11/16 in. (20.6 × 17 cm)
Image: 7 × 5 3/8 in. (17.8 × 13.7 cm)
Accession Number
1999.8
Classifications
print
Signed
OLB 1937 (l/r in print)
Colored Girl
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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for Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
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for Johnson Confers With Negro: President Lyndon B. Johnson confers in the White House office with Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a leader in the black drive for integration and equal opportunity. Wilkins was invited to the Executive Mansion by the new president. the appointment was one of many midway through a busy day, Washington DC, November 29, 1963
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for Among the attorneys who will argue against segregation in public school before the Supreme Court this week are, left to right: Harold R. Boulware, Columbia, South Carolina; Thurgood Marshall, New York City, official of National Association for Advancement of Colored People; and Spottswood W. Robinson III, representing Negro parents attacking school segregation in Virginia and South Carolina, December 1953
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