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Stories Behind the Postcards: Paintings and Collages of Jennifer Scott

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Postcards depicting lynchings and the brutal treatment of African Americans during Jim Crow were sent around the country as souvenirs between the 1880s and the Second World War. This series of six paintings and three collages is artist Jennifer Scott's response to lynching postcards.
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Keywords

  1. African American History
  2. African American Art
  3. African American Artists
  4. American South
  5. Art
  6. Lynching
  7. Postcards
  8. Racism
  9. Segregation

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