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Title
mni03604
Creator
Crowley, Tony
Date Created and/or Issued
2016
Publication Information
Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Murals of Northern Ireland
Rights Information
Physical rights are retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley. Copyright is retained by the photographer, Tony Crowley.
Description
Non-aligned mural, Northumberland Street, West Belfast, 2016. Mural montage dedicated to Black history; centrepiece: Frederick Douglass, It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults; images from top left: Obama; slave ship; Paul Robeson The artist must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I made my choice. I had no alternative; suffrage protest; John Lewis; the worker is the slave of capitalist society, the woman is the slave of that slave; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and underground railroad; slave sale poster and slave ship; civil rights demonstration; Rosa Parks; Abraham Lincoln, As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my dea of democracy; poster of Muhammad Ali Why should I drop bombs on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs; poster of the Co-Madres in El Salvador; Angela Davis, We have to talk about liberating minds, as well as liberating society; Steven Biko, The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed; Nelson Mandela, For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others; poster of the Haitian Revolt, The most successful slave uprising in history which led to the formation of the first Black republic in 1904 (sic); anti-apartheid poster Apartheid No Non; Martin Luther King, I have a dream... black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!; Bob Marley, Until the basic human rights are guaranteed to all without regard to race.
Non-aligned
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Identifier
mni03604.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mni/id/5995
Language
English
Subject
Mural painting and decoration
Non-aligned
History
Civil rights
Anti-racism
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-
Time Period
2011
Place
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
54.60071
-5.94713
Relation
Murals of Northern Ireland Collection https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/mni

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