Fleeting Monuments for The Wall of Respect
Museum of Vernacular Arts
(Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty)
"There's no excuse for the young people not to know who the heroes and heroines are or were."
Nina Simone
Click on each hero and heroine's name to view their flyer. Feel free to download and post!
I would love to see any documentation if you think to send it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
Muhammad Ali
James Baldwin
Amiri Baraka
Gwendolyn Brooks
James Brown
Jim Brown
Wilt Chamberlain
Albert Cleage
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Ossie Davis
Ruby Dee
Eric Dolphy
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ray Charles
Marcus Garvey
Dick Gregory
Billie Holiday
Elvin Jones
James Earl Jones
John Oliver Killens
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Charlie Parker
Sidney Poitier
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Max Roach
Sonny Rollins
Bill Russell
Nina Simone
Kwame Ture
Cicely Tyson
Wyatt Tee Walker
Muddy Waters
Stevie Wonder
Malcolm X