Mood Of Improvisation

Published 02/12/2013 | By c3support

16″ x 20″

This is the artwork of African American artist Philemon Reid of Vancouver Washington

Private Collection of Ms. Shirley Neal of Burbank California

Posted in Paintings

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Anna Maria Weems

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John James Neimore

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Annie Onieta Plummer

Annie Onieta Plummer The Dictionary Lady

John Brown

Jonh Brown Abolitionist

Liberia Established by Freed Slaves

Liberia Established Freed American slaves established country of Liberia

Briton Hammon

Briton Hammon First African American prose writer of note

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Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.

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Harold Washington First African-American mayor of Chicago

Cardiss Collins

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