{"id":4216,"date":"2015-08-23T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2018-09-23T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T15:12:25","slug":"the-tragedy-of-the-scottsboro-boys-and-the-work-of-reginald-gammon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=4216","title":{"rendered":"The Tragedy of the Scottsboro Boys and the work of Reginald Gammon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine black teenagers accused of rape in the 1930s South. The blatant injustice given to them during their trial lead to several legal reforms. Watch as Emory’s Associate Professor of African American Studies, Carol Anderson, discusses what happened to these boys both during and after their trial.<\/p>\n

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Reginald Gammon: Scottsboro Boys (2002), mezzo tint on paper, 12\u2033 x 10\u2033 –\u00a0Collect This Fine Art<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Reginald Gammon (1921 – 2005),\u00a0<\/span>Philadelphia born painter and printmaker Reginald Gammon chooses subject matter that often deals with dramatic moments in history\u00a0 and unlikely heroes. He was a child of the Great Depression who learned to draw at an early\u00a0 age. Acknowledging his debt to the social realists of the 1930\u2019s, Gammon began to formulate his style as a figurative and social artistin the early 1940\u2019s. Gammon attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, and later the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Fine Art at Temple University. Disillusioned with the lack of an artist\u00a0 synergy in Philadelphia, Gammon moved to New York in the 1950\u2019s, where he began to associate with Harlem Renaissance artists like Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Hale A. Woodruff and Richard Mayhew and became one of the founding members of Spiral.<\/span> In the print above, Gammon depicts the famous\u00a0 Scottsboro trial of the 1930\u2019s in which a group of young black\u00a0 men was accused of raping\u00a0 a white woman. A young\u00a0 Jewish attorney\u00a0 by the name of Leibovitz came to their defense and they were found not guilty of the crime.<\/span><\/strong> Gammon\u2019s work can be found\u00a0 in the collections of the Schomburg Center\u00a0 for Research in Black Culture, New York City; Fisk Uni versity in Nashville, TN; the New\u00a0 York Public\u00a0 Library; and the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, VA. He is now a retired Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts and Humanities at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.<\/span><\/p>\n