To the Seeker After Truth: Amplifying Chicago's Black Art History

The following resource documents Black visual arts collections across more than 20 BMRC member institutions. Based on a survey conducted by Rashieda Witter (BMRC Visual Arts Researcher from Nov. 2024–Nov. 2025), it provides collection descriptions, scope, strengths, gaps, and access notes, while highlighting connections among artists and institutions. Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, this resource is intended to amplify visibility, foster research, and encourage creative engagement with these collections.

This resource is best explored on a desktop or laptop for full accessibility. It is organized alphabetically by the name of our member institutions, and the title of each collection includes a link to its finding aid. A pdf of the full survey findings can be downloaded here: To the Seeker After Truth: Amplifying Chicago's Black Art History

Art Institute of Chicago

Isobel Neal Gallery Records

Inclusive dates: 1985-2019, (bulk 1986-1997). Contains correspondence, artwork, photographs, financial papers, printed material, ephemera, and documentation from Chicago’s pioneering Black-owned gallery. Founded in 1986 by Isobel Neal, the first Black member of the Chicago Gallery Association, the gallery exclusively represented Black artists until 1996. Located at 200 W. Superior St., it showcased artists including Elizabeth Catlett, Francisco Mora, William S. Carter, and Benny Andrews. After closing, Neal remained active as an arts consultant, curator, and institutional leader.

Subject Files: African American Artists

Primary and secondary source material on African American artists in Chicago. Includes documentation on (among others) William Edouard Scott, Archibald Motley, William McKnight Farrow, Ellis Wilson, lda McClelland Stout. Includes articles from magazines and newspapers, small exhibition catalogs, and a few photographs

Oral History of Richard Hunt (2011)

Richard Hunt (1935-2023) was a pioneering Chicago sculptor, renowned for abstract metal works exploring identity, history, and form. Discusses his family, who moved to Chicago from Georgia, teachers at the School of the Art Institute, the Art Institute's collections and his work in the Contemporary Art Workshop.

A. James Speyer curatorial papers (1961–1986)

12.5 linear feet of material consisting of routine correspondence regarding exhibitions, loans, and gifts with correspondents such as Alexander Calder, Richard Hunt, Katharine Kuh, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Speyer’s sister, Darthea Speyer; a scrapbook of clippings and exhibition reviews; personal note and day books.

Works Progress Administration: Federal Art Project Photographs, 1930s

1 linear foot. Approximately 500 black-and-white photographs document artworks produced in Chicago under various federal programs: the Federal Art Project; the Index of American Design; the South Side Community Art Center; and the Illinois Craft Project.

Robert Henry Adams Gallery Records (unprocessed)

Records of the Robert Henry Adams Gallery. Adams, who died in 2001 at the age of 46, opened his first gallery inside his home in 1980. Later moving to a space on Webster Ave. in 1983 and then finally to 715 N. Franklin St. in 1994, Adams specialized in Abstract Expressionism, Modernism and African American art. He championed African American artists and organized exhibitions, such as African American Art in Chicago, 1900-1950.

Chicago History Museum

Archibald J. Motley, Jr., papers and photographs collection (1894–2004)

7.5 linear feet (18 boxes), 17 sound cassettes, and 1 VHS cassette of material consisting of correspondence, publications, manuscripts, photocopies of sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, sound recordings, and a videocassette related to the life and work of Archibald J. Motley, Jr. Included are his handwritten manuscript "The Negro in Art," items related to exhibitions in which he participated, and photographs.

African Festival of the Arts Posters: (1994-2004)

Posters advertising Chicago's annual African Festival of the Arts, a four-day event held during Labor Day weekend that includes concessions, art, crafts, dance, food, storytelling, other activities, and live music from many portions of the African diaspora. The festival is held in Washington Park (Chicago, Ill.) and organized by Africa International House USA.

South Side Community Art Center (undated)

Miscellaneous pamphlets, catalogs, etc., undated, 1939 Artists & Models Ball pamphlet, Opening exhibition of paintings by Negro artists of the Illinois Art Project, Work Projects Administration : Dec. 15, 1940-Jan. 28, 1941.

Chicago Woman's Club

Scrapbook pertaining to The Negro in Art Week, 1927 Nov. 16-23.

Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers

The journey : the next 100 years (2000-2005): Photographs (regular and digital prints) by more than 70 members of the Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (CAAAP), produced as part of a collaborative, photo-documentary project to create a record of the African American community in Chicago at the turn of the 21st century. Depicts themes: The Arts, Challenges, Brothers, Sisters, the Next Generation, Faith, Family, and the Streets.

Claude A. Barnett papers (1918–1967)

80 linear ft., 2 oversize folders, 1 microfilm reel, and 1 box (index to the collection) of material consisting of correspondence, clippings, reports, minutes, speeches, and financial records of Claude Albert Barnett, the director of the Associated Negro Press (ANP), and news releases of the ANP (1928–1964) and of the World News Service (1961–1963). Most of the collection has been microfilmed (see finding aid for details). Box 287 contains correspondence and copies of correspondence with and about African American artists including Charles Dawson, Charles Embree, Isaac Hathaway, Robert Pious, Tony Hill [ceramicist], Calvin Bailey, Edwin Harleston, and curator Alonzo Aden; a letter from Malcolm S. MacLean, Hampton Institute, to Etta Moten Barnett regarding a Fine Arts Festival (1941); catalogue for exhibitions Art of the American Negro, Tanner Art Galleries, Chicago (1940), the Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C. (undated), and a Henry Jackson Lewis exhibition, South Side Community Art Center (1945); and clippings, biographical data, vita, notes, and press releases relating to artists Norman Lewis, Isaac Hathaway, Horace Pippin, Richmond Barthé, E. Simms Campbell, Hughie Lee-Smith, Elizabeth Catlett, Mrs. C. Rosenberg Foster, Eldzier Cortor, William Edmondson, and Gordon Parks.

Illinois Arts Council records (1977–1978)

0.5 lin. ft. of materials consisting of reports, memos, financial information of the Illinois Arts Council, chiefly related to the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project. The materials include Bruce Boyer's and Grace Moore's reports on the Ethnic Arts Program of 1977 as well as a report prepared by the American Folklife Center (4 folders). Groups studied included Americans of African, Austrian, Chinese, Croatian, Cuban, Czech, Danish, Finnish, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Korean, Latino, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Native American, Norwegian, Polish, Puerto Rican, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, and Ukrainian descent.

Thing Magazine records

1980-1995, 17 linear feet. Thing magazine was founded as a platform for Black LGBTQIA+ life. As such, its issues are full of art, house music, interviews, commentary, small and large features, recurring columns, poetry, and articles centering around Black culture, LGBTQIA+ culture, HIV/AIDS activism, drag, camp, and more

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center Special Collections

Madeline Murphy Rabb papers (1980-1991)

6 linear feet. Madeline Murphy Rabb served as Executive Director of the Chicago Office of Fine Arts from 1983 to 1990, where she helped strengthen and expand the city s cultural arts programs. This collection includes administrative documents, speeches, material related to conferences and exhibits, publicity, research, and photographs.

John Pitman Webber papers (1961-2022)

[Partially Processed]. John Pitman Weber is a Chicago-based artist and arts educator. Best known as a public artist, Weber co-founded the Chicago Mural Group (now Chicago Public Art Group) with the late William Walker in 1970-1971. He has also led and co-led mosaic, concrete relief and painted murals for over 40 years in Chicago as well as nationally and internationally. The collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, exhibit catalogs, news clippings, photographs, research files and writings for Weber’s art projects and public art.

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Visual & Performing Arts, Humanities Division

Chicago Artist Files (c.1890-2014)

Documents over a hundred years of Chicago art history, with material on over 11,200 artists, art movements and arts organizations. Materials include press clippings, gallery notices, résumés, newspaper articles, artist books, photographs, slides and CDs.

Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library

Dungill Family Papers (1894-1999)

5 linear feet. Documents the history of the musical accomplishments of the Dungill family. The family resided in Chicago’s historic Morgan Park community, where they developed a unique family orchestra. The Dungill Family Orchestra consisted of nine family members: the parents, Doyle and Evette Dungill, and the children: Alexander, Elaine, Melody, Gerald, Charles, Gloria and Harriette. Contains scrapbooks, rare photographs, manuscripts and audio-visual materials, including newspaper clippings, advertisements and flyers, souvenir programs and promotional literature documenting the Dungill Family performances from the 1930s through the 1960s.The Art series contains several original paintings and reproductions of art done by Melody, Gloria and Elaine Dungill. Most of the works are portraits.

Marion Perkins/Perkins Family papers (1938-2003)

Partially processed. 4 linear feet of material including Marion Perkins’ writings, photographs and articles about his work. Also included are plays, poetry and interviews by Perkins’s son Useni Perkins, a poet and essayist who was a leader in the Black Arts Movement.

William Edouard Scott papers (1846-2007)

5 linear feet (8 archival boxes) of material documenting the life and career of painter William Edouard Scott, and consisting of biographical documents; program booklets from important exhibitions of African American art from the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights movement, such as the 1933 Exhibition of the Productions of Negro Artists and the 1940 American Negro Exposition; correspondence (notably a letter from Horace Cayton to Scott detailing Cayton’s plans for the presentation of black art and history at the American Negro Exposition); newspaper and journal clippings; photographs, many of Scott with his paintings and murals and photographs of his paintings by themselves, including most of his paintings for the 1940 American Negro Exposition; and memorabilia.

William McBride, Jr. papers (1907 - 1995)

45 linear feet (46 archival boxes, many of them oversize) of material relating to and collected by William McBride, including biographical documents; writings, particularly McBride’s early poems; correspondence, much of it from McBride’s friends affiliated with the South Side Community Art Center, including Margaret Burroughs, William S. Carter, and Fitzhugh Dinkins; material relating to the South Side Community Art Center, including official documents, writings and publicity materials depicting the center’s establishment, and programs and fliers for exhibitions several of William McBride’s Artists and Models Ball souvenir books; documents of other organizations, such as the Illinois Art Project and National Conference of Artists, as well as the McBride-designed production report books of the Federal Theater Project’s Little Black Sambo and promotional material of the Art Crafts Guild’s 1933 Artist’s Ball; programs and promotional materials of various art exhibitions collected by McBride, including several documents from the 1963 Century of Negro Progress fair; posters created and collected by William McBride; his files on Africa, the arts, business, Chicago, education and politics; magazines, booklets, and newspapers related to the study of art and to art, politics and the African diaspora, including the Black Power movement and the Black Arts movement; clippings; photographs; and memorabilia.

Susan Cayton Woodson Papers (1870-2013)

33 linear feet (42 archival boxes) he Susan Cayton Woodson Papers contain a wealth of information on black Chicago visual art, from the Renaissance through the Black Arts Movement and beyond, particularly on the activities and management of the South Side Community Art Center in the later decades of the twentieth century. In addition, the collection contains many documents on the history of African Americans in Seattle, and on the Cayton family.

George Cleveland Hall Branch archives (1930-1975)

28 linear feet of material consisting of administrative files, clippings and articles, photographs, memorabilia, and biographical, subject, and pamphlet files documenting the activities of the George Cleveland Hall branch of the Chicago Public Library and comprising part of the “Special Negro Collection” begun by the Hall branch library’s first director, Vivian G. Harsh. With a few exceptions, the biographical and subject vertical files contain newspaper clippings, journal articles, reprints, and pamphlets from African American publications such as the Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, Ebony, and Jet. They include materials on artists John Biggers, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Augusta Savage, Henry Osawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff. The subject files include materials on the American Negro Exposition, 1940; Black American Artists Index, 1972; Black Arts Guild, 1973; Chicago Murals, 1967; Lively Arts Series of Black Esthetics, 1970; and Negro in Art Week, 1927.

Horace R. Cayton Papers (1866-2007)

Horace Roscoe Cayton was a prominent African American sociologist, writer, and academic whose cultural contributions significantly shaped the understanding of race, labor, and Black urban life in 20th-century America. Born into a distinguished family of writers and activists, Cayton built upon his heritage through groundbreaking sociological work, most notably co-authoring Black Metropolis (1945), a seminal study of African American life in Chicago. He wrote influential columns for the Pittsburgh Courier, blending civil rights advocacy with cultural commentary, and directed the Parkway Community House, a hub of the Chicago Renaissance that fostered connections with literary figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.

Abbott-Sengstacke Family Papers (1847-1997)

179 linear feet (251 archival boxes). The Abbott-Sengstacke Family papers include materials from Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1868-1940) and John Herman Henry Sengstacke (1912-1997), as well as John’s wife Myrtle Elizabeth Picou Sengstacke (1914-1990). The papers trace the Abbott-Sengstacke family history from the mid-19th century in Georgia through Abbott's move to Chicago and creation of a journalistic empire, to the death of Sengstacke in 1997. Robert S. Abbott founded the Chicago Defender in 1905; his nephew, John H. Sengstacke, took over the family's newspapers on Abbott's death in 1940. Series 11. Chicago Defender Charities, 1938-1997 contains files on “Black Creativity,” an annual event held in conjunction with the Museum of Science & Industry to celebrate the achievements of African Americans. The fourth section, “Black Esthetics,” was an annual festival celebrating African American music, art and drama. In its early years, “Black Esthetics” was primarily a Chicago Defender initiative under the direction of its Fine Arts Editor, Earl Calloway, but later was handled almost exclusively by the Chicago Defender Charities.

Etta Moten Barnett Papers (1901-2004)

15 linear feet (27 archival boxes) An internationally acclaimed concert and musical theater singer, social activist and philanthropist, Etta Moten Barnett’s career began in the 1930s and continued past her 100th birthday. She starred in Broadway musicals and in films. Her husband was Claude Barnett, founder and president of the Associated Negro Press. From the Barnetts’ visits to Africa, they amassed an impressive private African art collection. Barnett's papers include correspondence, speech texts, clippings, programs, photographs and memorabilia.

Eugene Winslow Papers (1851-1994)

18.75 linear feet. Architect, artist and historian Eugene Winslow made his mark in a wide variety of fields. He was a Tuskegee Airman during World War II, an architect influenced by the Bauhaus movement and a Black history researcher in the 1970s. He wrote most of the articles and created all the illustrations for Great Negroes Past and Present. His papers include extensive subject research files created for his work on the book, rare serials, biographical information, photographs and memorabilia.

St. Mark’s Camera Club Photograph Collection (1990-1993)

4.25 linear feet. St. Mark’s Camera Club was founded by Willie Griffin in 1972. Griffin was also associated with the Washington Park and South Side camera clubs. This collection contains photographs from the camera club of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church. St. James, Michael Photograph Collection (1890-1997): Photographer Michael St. James collected early images produced by Chicago’s pioneering African American photographers. The collection includes photographs taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Rita Coburn Whack Collection (1996-2003)

2 linear feet. Rita Coburn Whack, a novelist, television and radio producer, and on-air radio contributor, won an Emmy for writing in her documentary film, Curators of Culture: Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center, in 2005. Her papers include 41 oral history interviews and other audiovisual materials from her public radio work and from documentaries she created for public television.

Leonard Wash Papers (1958-2011)

67 linear feet. The Leonard Wash papers are a voluminous and varied assemblage of materials collected or recorded by Wash as he witnessed and documented the birth and growth of Chicago’s Black Arts, Black Power and Black Consciousness movements from the early 1960s forward into the 21st century. The items in this collection reflect the racially transformed academic world of Chicago’s City Colleges in the 1970s as well as the literature and music created by the Black Arts Movement through the Organization of Black American Culture and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. A significant component of this documentation is the 30 years of programs and recordings generated by the annual Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey College (1978-2007).

Calvin B. Jones Papers (1972-2010, undated)

This collection consists of materials related to the life and artistic work of Calvin B. Jones. Archival materials include articles about Jones and his art, his funeral program, correspondence, event programs, memorabilia, photographs of Jones, his family and his art.

Alfred Woods papers (1944-2002)

Unprocessed. Poet, librarian and cultural projects activist Alfred Woods is best known as the author of Mannish. His papers include poetry and other manuscripts, correspondence, programs, grant materials, official reports, clipping files and memorabilia. The Arts grants and materials subseries documents relating to Woods’s involvement in African American art and with Chicago artists are included in this series. Grant applications written by and/or for Woods as well as on behalf of other organizations including grants for various exhibits Woods helped create are included.

Frances Minor Papers (1863-2009)

15 linear feet (29 archival boxes). The Frances Minor Papers are composed chiefly of materials on artists, art shows, gallery materials, and newspaper clippings collected from the 1950s to 2008. Also included are pamphlets, photographs, and ephemera from throughout Byron and Frances' life together, and from Byron's career with the Chicago Public Schools.

Chester Commodore Papers (1914-2004)

36.25 linear feet. Chester Commodore was one of the most influential and acclaimed African American cartoonists of the twentieth century. During the nearly 50 years his cartoons appeared in the Chicago Defender, Commodore used his art to advocate for racial justice, human rights, and equality of opportunity.

William Johnson Papers (1988-1996)

4 linear feet. Partially processed: William Johnson’s papers include his slides and photographs, activities of the Washington Park Camera Club (the oldest African American camera club in the city) and materials from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History

Fred MacDonald Papers (1955-1974)

Unprocessed. Fred MacDonald was a professor at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and president of MacDonald & Associates, a historical film archives based in Chicago. The collection includes DVD transfers documenting black arts, television and radio during the early 20th century.

Grace Mason Papers/ Franklyn Atkinson Henderson Photograph Collection

(1830-1992), 4 linear feet. Grace Mason, a descendant of pioneering Chicago African American photographer Franklyn Atkinson Henderson, donated his collection of nearly 100 photo portraits of “prominent Negro Chicagoans.” Photos were created from 1885 to 1915. Many of these photos were exhibited at the 1940 American Negro Exposition.

Mark Rogovin Papers

Unprocessed. 1960-1995, 18.5 linear feet. Mark Rogovin was an artist in the modern mural movement and founder of Chicago’s Peace Museum. His collection consists of artwork (prints) by Margaret Burroughs and Tecla Selnick, political and activist posters (including prints related to the Black Panther Party and Mayor Harold Washington’s elections), correspondence and memorabilia.

Barbara Shepherd Papers

(1940-1942), 1 linear foot. Barbara Shepherd worked on the 1940 American Negro Exposition held at the Chicago Coliseum. She also served in staff positions in several social service organizations. This small photograph collection is one of the few sources that documents the construction and activities of the 1940 exposition.

Joan Wallace Papers

1901-2007, 42.5 linear feet. Joan Wallace, daughter of painter William Edouard Scott and widow of anti-poverty federal official Maurice Dawkins, was an assistant secretary of agriculture during the Carter administration. Her papers contain correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs and memorabilia.

The Sapphire & Crystals Archives

Sapphire & Crystals is a collective of African American women artists who educate, support, and empower women in the arts, founded by Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly and Felicia Grant Preston in 1986. It is part of the community-supported, artistic lineage of notable women like Dr. Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Susan Cayton Woodson, and others. The collective held its first exhibition at the South Side Community Art Center in 1987. In 2024, the Harsh Research Collection became the home to Sapphire & Crystals’ growing archival collection.

Esther Parada Papers

(1929-1993), Unprocessed. In 1992, Esther Parada, an artist and professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, created an exhibit entitled, “Who Dis/Covers, Who Dis/Colors?” The exhibit investigated the struggle of African Americans for representation of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable at the 1933 Century of Progress international exposition in Chicago. The papers include original art by Parada, research materials from the period of the exposition and press coverage of the 1992 exhibit.

Maria Mootry Papers

1971-2001, 3.5 linear feet. Poet, artist, activist, literary critic and essayist Maria Mootry was a professor at the University of Illinois-Springfield and the author of literary criticism on Gwendolyn Brooks. Her papers include original manuscripts, correspondence, conference programs and memorabilia.

The Illinois Writers Project “Negro in Illinois” papers

1936–1942, 53 boxes of research notes and draft chapters for a projected book on African American history and culture in Illinois, The Negro in Illinois, compiled and written by participants in the Illinois Writers Project. Included are essays on “Colored Culture in Chicago,” including artists William Edouard Scott, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Henry Ossawa Tanner, Meta Warrick Fuller, Joseph Kersey, Clarence Lawson, Richmond Barthe, William Knight Farrow, E. Simms Campbell, and Charles C. Dawson, and on the Federal Art Project.

Abdul Alkalimat papers

Partially processed. 1981-2005, 33 linear feet. This collection predominantly consists of conference papers, articles, speeches and unpublished manuscripts written and collected by Abdul Alkalimat while he was director of African American studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana. Recent additions include a clipping file on Harold Washington, and materials on black studies. Relevant art-related material include issues of the Art & Black Culture Chicago periodical.

Adlean Harris Papers

1876–2007, 74.25 linear feet. Document the life of Chicago librarian, genealogist, and scholar Dr. Adlean Harris. The collection includes manuscripts, bibliographies, and research on Black composers, genealogy, and community history. Of particular significance to Black art history is Harris’s portrait by artist Margaret Burroughs and her work with the South Side Community Art Center and DuSable Museum networks, situating her within Chicago’s artistic and intellectual circles.

Timothy Jackson Papers

Partially processed. 2000-2008, 3 linear feet. Chicago Defender editorial cartoonist Tim Jackson is also renowned as the creator of the website Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, the most extensive database of information about early African American cartoonists. The papers consist of his original cartoons, preliminary sketches and graphic design drawings for LifeTimes.

Era Bell Thompson Papers

1896–1986, 96 linear feet. The Era Bell Thompson Papers document the career of Ebony editor and author of American Daughter, a Chicago Black Renaissance figure. The collection preserves manuscripts, correspondence with writers like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, Johnson Publishing records, and photographs, reflecting Thompson’s influence on Black art, journalism, and cultural history.

Michael St. James Photograph Collection

1890-1920, 2 linear feet. Michael St. James, a photographer, collected early images produced by Chicago’s pioneering African American photographers. The collection includes photographs taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Fern Gayden Papers

1883-1985, 4 linear feet. A founding member of the South Side Writers Group in the 1930s, Fern Gayden’s long and diverse career included leadership roles in the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the South Side Community Art Center. She co-published Negro Story magazine with Alice Browning. Her papers include family history records, correspondence, flyers and programs, photographs and audiovisual materials.

Chicago State University

Chicago Renaissance: A Festival Celebrating African American Art

1997-2001, 5 linear feet. The collection consists of photographs, newspapers, memorabilia such as post cards, flyers and posters; administrative papers, and correspondence regarding the development of the Chicago Renaissance Art Festivals.

Lerone Bennett, Jr. Papers

Partially processed. This collection includes correspondence, memos, photographs, artifacts and ephemera that documents the work of noted journalist, author, social historian, and scholar Lerone Bennett, Jr., with a specific focus on his extensive career at Johnson Publishing Company as Executive Editor of Ebony Magazine

Art Audio-Visual collection

Unprocessed. Unknown number of videotapes recording art activities at Chicago State University, especially art exhibitions and related events such as performances and receptions. The mediums and condition of the recordings vary. Subjects include the unveiling of a portrait of Dr. Dolores Cross by Lily Tolpo (1993), a Black History Month art display (1996), Margaret Burroughs’s art show (1996), the Chicago Renaissance festival (2001), an exhibition reception for artist Kathy Weaver, a program relating to artist Amanda Williams (2012), and an Hispanic Heritage Month art exhibition reception featuring artists Stephen Flemister, Myra Velasquez, and Sergio Gomez.

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection

Posters collected by Chicago Anti-Apartheid activists, produced by African National Congress (ANC), South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Canada, United States, and United Nations as well as posters educating about social, economic, and political conditions of countries under apartheid governments.