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University and American University. Later I visited the art centersof Europe.

A full program of teaching at the Shaw Junior High School here in Washington did not prevent me from personal creativity and from active participation in the art life of the city. I was an organizer of the School Arts League Project whose purpose it was to foster keener appreciation  of art among Negro children of Washington, D.C. In connection with this program, a series of lectures was planned with emphasis upon the art of the American Negro. Using some vacant rooms at Shaw, I organized the first art gallery in the D. C. public schools, ^[[in 1938]] securing paintings by aoutstanding Negro artists from ^[[the]] Howard University [[strikethrough]] . [[/strikethrough]] Gallery of Art.