The Chicago artist's work is the subject of three exhibitions examining his life's work to bring dignity to his community In the 1930s, African American artist Charles White, a teenager in Chicago, raised his hand in high school. He stood up to his white teacher and asked why black history wasn't in the school curriculum, curious as to why figures like Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass were being ignored. It got him scoffed at, ridiculed and deemed an embarrassment by his fellow b...
The Chicago artist's work is the subject of three exhibitions examining his life's work to bring dignity to his community In the 1930s, African American artist Charles White, a teenager in Chicago, raised his hand in high school. He stood up to his white teacher and asked why black history wasn't in the school curriculum, curious as to why figures like Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass were being ignored. It got him scoffed at, ridiculed and deemed an embarrassment by his fellow b...
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