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A Monument to Blackness is a monument dedicated to remembering the revolutionary artistry, radical activism, trailblazing histories, transformative stories, and living legacies of the Black mural movement over the centuries. Hannah E. Jeffery’s brilliantly researched and beautifully written book does powerful justice to this world-leading movement as a movement dedicated to Black resistance, Black radicalism, Black revolution, and Black liberation in the Black Freedom Movement: past, present, and future. -- Celeste-Marie Bernier * author of Battleground: African American Art, 1985-2015 * Hannah E. Jeffery marshals an impressive and expansive range of primary and secondary sources to both back up her arguments on the significance of murals in the ongoing Black liberation movement from the 1920s-30s to the 1960s-70s to today as well as on the artistic significance of African American mural art in general. I laud her scholarship on Black murals of the Harlem Renaissance and of the New Deal era. -- Jeff Huebner * author of Walls of Prophecy and Protest: William Walker and the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art Movement *

A Monument to Blackness is a monument dedicated to remembering the revolutionary artistry, radical activism, trailblazing histories, transformative stories, and living legacies of the Black mural movement over the centuries. Hannah E. Jeffery’s brilliantly researched and beautifully written book does powerful justice to this world-leading movement as a movement dedicated to Black resistance, Black radicalism, Black revolution, and Black liberation in the Black Freedom Movement: past, present, and future. -- Celeste-Marie Bernier * author of Battleground: African American Art, 1985-2015 *

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HANNAH E. JEFFERY is a senior researcher at a social policy research institute in Glasgow, Scotland. She was the recipient of a Baird Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery and a Leverhulme early career researcher at the University of Edinburgh, and she recently won a BA/Leverhulme Small Grants award to create a digital archive to preserve Black Lives Matter murals around the world. She also contributed to an exhibition of Frederick Douglass murals at the Boston Museum of African American History titled Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century.

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