Though this was a decidedly modest brochure, relating to an exhibition of ‘Graphics and Paintings at the ACA Galleries 61 East 57, Feb. 12 Thru Feb. 24, 1951’, it nevertheless contained fascinating material, namely a reproduction of a print and poem. The brochure opened up to reveal a reproduction of Charles White, Exodus I: Black Moses (Harriet Tubman), 1951, Linocut on paper - Charles White Exodus I Black Moses.jpg - though curiously, the brochure lacked an image credit.
The main text was a poem titled 'To my Negro Sisters', by Eve Merriam, a Jewish American poet and writer (1916 - 1992). The poem had a section that contained lines referencing several African American women - Moranda Smith [Labor organizer and unionist who served as the first regional director of Winston-Salem, North Carolina's local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America in the 1930 and 1940s.], Bessie Mitchell [Activist], Amy Mallard [widow of Robert Mallard, shot and killed by a mob of twenty armed white men on November 20, 1948, in front of his family in Lyons, Georgia. The killing initially garnered little attention, but due in part to the outspokenness of Amy Mallard, the case soon became national news, and the (NAACP) entered the case.], Rosalie McGee [associated with Willie McGee [controversially convicted for the rape of a white woman on November 2, 1945], and Rosa Lee Ingram [who in the 1940s, became an icon for the civil rights and social justice movement.]
The final side of this multi-sided brochure consisted of a list of the exhibits in the show - Paintings, Prints, and Drawings. There were fifteen works in the exhibition, though Exodus I: Black Moses (Harriet Tubman) was titled "General Moses".
PAINTINGS
1. Bessie Smith
2. Gospel Singers
3. Adolescence
4. Our Land
5. Lift Every Voice
6. We Listen, We Learn, We Question...
PRINTS
7. "General Moses"
8. Bessie Smith
9. Man and Woman
10. Hear Now, Our Story
11. Child and Woman
DRAWINGS
12. Youth
13. Mother
14. Juba
15. My Mother and My Grandmother