Uptown Blues

Published 02/12/2013 | By c3support

28″ x 22″

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

Private Collection of Deborah Foster of Portland Oregon

Posted in Paintings

BlackUSA History

Elmer Simms Campbell

Elmer Simms Campbell Cartoonist

James Amos Porter

James Amos Porter Artist and author

Henry Blair

Henry Blair Inventor

Shirley Graham

Shirley Graham Writer

Anna Ella Carroll

Anna Ella Carroll Writer, civil-war strategist

Prudence Crandall

Prudence Crandall Pioneer Civil-Rights Educator

The Pittsburgh Courier

The Pittsburgh Courier Early African American newspaper

Anna Maria Weems

Anna Maria Weems Underground Railroad Slave

John James Neimore

John James Neimore Publisher

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

Matthias de Sousa

Matthias de Sousa Adventurer

Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.

Andrew Young Named Ambassadoe and Chief US Delegate

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