RACIAL RECKONING & REMEMBERING FREEDOM SUMMER ‘64 10” x 20”
As the nation began a racial reckoning with the Black Lives Matter
unframed
protests underway all over the world, I looked back to the Freedom
Oil on canvas
Summer of 1964 when three heroes were martyred trying to promote
June 15, 2020
voting rights: Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. rights workers (teenagers) register black residents to vote. One night a church that was helping the cause by providing space to teach the people was burned down. Three of the leaders Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, went to the church to investigate and to apologize for what happened because the church had helped in the effort to register people to vote. The three young men were not seen again. They went missing, and a long manhunt finally ended when the three were found murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. I painted this June 6th, 2020 to honor them and the BLM movement, (using a limited palette of three colors).
BETTEB ANGELS & BONAFIDE HEROES
The local people in Mississippi discouraged anyone helping the civil
