AP African American Studies Resource Archive

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A five-piece mural made out of steel grates of a person working in a field.

“Urban Garden Rail”

by Saya Woolfalk

Explore responses to food access issues in segregated communities through this work of art.

  • Work of Art
A color photograph of an outdoor train platform with a wall of glass panels overlooking the street below; the images include a propeller airplane, a Tuskegee airman, a car, and horse racing.

“Illuminations”

by Darryl Westly

View a work of art on the Long Island Rail Road paying homage, in part, to the Tuskegee Airmen.

  • Work of Art
A multicolored, abstract glass mosaic.

“Just Jazz”

by Moe Brooker

Explore a work of art on the Long Island Rail Road inspired by jazz musician John Coltrane.

  • Work of Art
A Black man wearing a black baseball cap, orange shirt, jeans, and sneakers, walking along a bridge with a series of metal panels in the background.

“Empirical Evidence”

by Damien Davis

View a work of art paying homage to the African American community of Mount Vernon, NY.

  • Work of Art
A photograph with impressionist, multicolored mosaic mural of people on a subway train in the background, with beams holding up a subway station in the foreground of the photograph.

“New York in Transit”

by Jacob Lawrence

View Jacob Lawrence’s last public work, a mosaic mural in New York City's Times Square subway station.

  • Work of Art
A large tile mosaic mural of people in a boat.

“Great Waves of Immigration”

by Carmen Lizardo

Explore the history of Afro-Caribbean migration to the US through this mosaic, installed in the New York City subway system.

  • Work of Art

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