A Monument to Blackness: Murals and Black Liberation, from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives Matter

A Monument to Blacknessoffers an in-depth look at Black murals across the United States, from interior murals in the South to street murals predominantly in the North and West. It shows us how Black murals were--and remain--an integral but commonly overlooked artistic expression in the movement for Black liberation across the country.

HANNAH E. JEFFERY is a senior researcher at a social policy research institute in Glasgow, Scotland. She recently completed a Leverhulme
Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has been the recipient of a Baird
Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, and she recently won a BA/Leverhulme Small Grants award to create a digital archive to preserve Black Lives Matter murals around the world, titled Say Their Names: The Murals of Black Lives Matter. She also contributed to an exhibition
of Frederick Douglass murals on display at the Boston Museum of African American History titled, Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century.