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Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/

Provider: Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery


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Breaking Racial Barriers is an online exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution that is based on the 1944 “Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin” exhibition, organized by the Harmon Foundation with the express goal of reversing racial intolerance, ignorance and bigotry by illustrating the accomplishments of contemporary African Americans. To provide a sense of historical context, the portraits that were displayed in the original exhibition include excerpts from their labels. This exhibit includes portraits created by Laura Wheeler Waring and Betsy Graves Reyneau and features such notable figures as George Washington Carver, W.E.B. DuBois, and Thurgood Marshall.