- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Civil rights memory painting
- Creator:
- Sims, Bernice, 1926-
- Date of Original:
- 1996
- Subject:
- Folk art--United States
African American folk art--United States
African American painting--United States
Folk art--Alabama
African American folk art--Alabama
African American painting--Alabama
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights workers
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
African American civil rights workers
Police--Tennessee--Memphis
Police
Fire hose
Dog attacks
Truncheons
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination - People:
- Painting, American
Lorraine Motel (Memphis, Tenn.)
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898 - Medium:
- acrylic paintings (visual works)
canvas - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Painting by Bernice Sims.
Memory painter Bernice Sims was born in southern Alabama, and has lived there all of her life. It was not until she had raised her own six children that she decided to finish high school, and earned her high school diploma at the age of 52. Class field trips to museums re-awakened her childhood interest in painting. She began painting again, rendering colorful scenes of the farm life, church activities, and community gatherings of her youth. Sims is best known for her haunting depictions of the struggle for civil rights. In 2005, her work The Crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma was selected as one of the images to be included in the United States Postal Service stamp series To Form a More Perfect Union.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04132011-41
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04132011-41
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 painting on canvas : acrylic ; 77 x 51 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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