Community Center Staff Meeting by Minnesota Historical SocietySmithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
1. Changemakers You Should Know
From Hallie Quinn Brown, Charlene Carruthers, Angela Davis, Pauli Murray, to Bayard Rustin, Barbara Smith, and William Still, learn more about these historic heroes with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Study of the Model Joseph (about 1818–1819) by Théodore GéricaultThe J. Paul Getty Museum
2. Who was Joseph?
Muse to renowned painter Théodore Géricault, learn more about one of the most famous Black models of the 19th-century with the Getty Museum.
vehicle | play set: Bronze Bombers Battle Hovercraft (1988) by Olmec CorporationThe Strong National Museum of Play
3. How Olmec Toys Reshaped the Toy Market
Explore with the Strong National Museum of Play how Yla Eason, a Black mother and Harvard-trained businesswoman, built a company that challenged the toy industry’s standards for multicultural representation.
Jerry Lawson
4. Meet Gerald “Jerry” Lawson
Explore with the Strong National Museum the life of Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, the video game engineer and entrepreneur who changed the way we play.
Rocking Chair (1981) by Nellie Mae RoweOriginal Source: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
5. The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
A preeminent and underrecognized figure of 20th-century American art, celebrate Rowe and learn more about how she uses her practice as a radical act of self-expression, and liberation for a Black woman artist living and working in the American South.
