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Purvis Young1978
Souls Grown Deep
Atlanta, United States
This 1978 drawing is made on a fundraising appeal from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) seeking support for their effort to register Black voters in South Carolina. It invokes the memory of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Young frames the letter with a ring of funeral mourners.
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- Title: Untitled
- Creator: Purvis Young
- Creator Lifespan: 1943/2010
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Miami, Florida
- Creator Birth Place: Miami, Florida
- Date Created: 1978
- Location Created: Miami, Florida
- Physical Dimensions: 11.5 x 19 in.
- Subject Keywords: Black art, African American art, Emmett Till, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Voting rights
- Type: Book, Drawing
- Original Source: Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
- Rights: © Larry Clemons, Gallery 721 / Photo: Stephen Pitkin, Pitkin Studio
- External Link: https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/artist/purvis-young
- Medium: Ballpoint pen, marker, crayon on letter, glued to found book
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