Girl in Black and White snowglobe and political development as confided

and political development as confided to his primary mentor

Highsmith photograph of the glass Mosaic ceiling in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson building at the Library of Congress

against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone—Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons

"  The United States Marine from the Continental Marine through today

scores of African-American protestors

Girl in Black and White snowglobe and political development as confidedWhen a decades long court battle resulted in her familys freedom in 1855, seven year old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Famous abolitionists Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Albion Andrew would help Mary and her family in freedom, but Senator Charles Sumner saw a monumental political opportunity. Due to generations of sexual violence, Marys skin was so light that she passed as white,