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Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, Vertis Hayes, the famous Horace Pippin and countless others. Since the end of World War II, the number of Afro-American artists has greatly increased and a considerable number have earned international reputations. We can only mention a few the number is so great.

13. If presented together in one grouping, the several mural panels prepared by Vertis Hayes, Charles White, Aaron Douglas, Hale Woodruff, William E. Scott and Charles Alston, the complete history of Black people in the United States would be told.

14. In order that we as students of progressive and revolutionary notions stay abreast with current developments in the directions of Black art let us keep in mind a few organizations and associated persons, Alonzo Davis, Director of Brockman Gallery; Dr. Samella Lewis, Historian; E.J. Montgomery, Black Art Consultant; Edmund B. Gaither, Curator, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists; Jeff Donaldson, Chairman of Art Department, Howard University; Carroll Greene, Jr., Curator of the Afro-American Art Collections at Frederick Douglass Institute of Negro Arts and History; J. Brooks Dendy, Curator, Division of Education, Drama Section, Carnegie Institute; Byron Young, Federal level, and Claude Booker, Black Arts Council, local.

JOHN WILFRED OUTTERBRIDGE

LECTURER, AFRO-AMERICAN ART
CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGE,
DOMINGUEZ HILLS

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