Eighty Years in The Black Civil Rights Movement Oil, charcoal and mixed media, 1985, 58 x 50 inches The unifying theme of this multiple image is the hourglass that...
Eldridge Cleaver Oil, 1970, 26 x 36 inches Leroy Eldridge Cleaver, one of the original members of the Black Panther Party, was born in 1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, and...
Solidarity Day Oil, 1968, 16 x 11 inches During the summer of 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the nation’s capital became the focus for...
Must Riots Continue? Oil, 1968, 50 x 38 inches Must Riots Continue? became a question for national attention, and President Johnson appointed a Commission on Civil...
From Despair to Rage Acrylic, 1968, 26 x 20 inches From Despair to Rage is another Templeton image to emerge from that tense period of the late 1960s, a period that saw...
The Young Blacks Oil, 1970, 40 x 30 inches This collective portrait of a generation that came of age in the sixties evokes the vital and conflicting spirit of those...
Black Power or Non-Violence? Acrylic, 1967, 72 x 48 inches The civil rights struggles of all people throughout all time have required that the choice among contradictory...
The Detroit Riots – Time Magazine Acrylic, 1967, 31 x 24 inches The riots in Detroit in the late sixties were an epiphany for Robert Templeton. They came out of a...
Malcolm X Oil, 1985, 56 x 42 inches Malcolm X, clergyman, was born Malcolm Little in Nebraska in 1925, the son of James Earl Little, a Baptist preacher who advocated the...
Lyndon B. Johnson Oil, 1968, 30 x 24 inches Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 37th president of the United State, was as dedicated and aggressive a politician that ever rose to...
Ralph David Abernathy Oil, 1974, 30 x 24 inches Ralph David Abernathy, clergyman, was born in Alabama in 1926, and received his bachelor’s degree from Alabama...
Whitney Moore Young, Jr. Oil, 1980, 38 x 31 inches Whitney Moore Young, Jr., executive, was born in 1921 in Kentucky, where he graduated from Kentucky State College. He...
Rosa Parks Oil, 1970, 35 x 28 inches Rosa Parks, seamstress and symbol, was born in Tuskegee in 1913 as Rosa McCauley, and attended Alabama State College. She married...
Hubert H. Humphrey Oil, about 1970, 51 x 37 inches As a US Senator from Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey was an active liberal with a creative program to advance equal...
Roy Wilkins Oil, 1972, 42 x 32 inches Roy Wilkins, leader of the NAACP, was born in Missouri in 1901. He was brought up in Minnesota, where he worked his way through the...
Ralph Emerson McGill Oil, 1984 (from 1969 photo shoot), 40 x 30 inches Ralph Emerson McGill, newspaperman, was born in Tennessee in 1898 and studied at Vanderbilt...
Benjamin Mays Oil, 1969, 40 x 32 inches Benjamin Elijah Mays, educator, was born in 1895 in South Carolina, and graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1920. He went to...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Oil, 1973 – 1976, 96 x 84 inches Martin Luther King, Jr., clergyman, was born in 1929 in Atlanta where he was brought up, and he entered...
Founders of the NAACP Oil, 1984, 30 x 50 inches Moorfield Storey, lawyer and author, practiced law in Boston, where he was a reformer and a strong supporter of civil...
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