Taking Steps: Recognizing 19th Century African American Abolitionists, Entrepreneurs and Family

Gloria D. Hall is the Preservationist & Public Art Call Administrator for “Taking Steps: Recognizing 19th Century African American Abolitionists, Entrepreneurs and Family”. The project will honor William Brown and Martha Ann Tulip Lewis (Brown), Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass with large-scale portraits. The portraits will become a part of the Worcester County Mechanics Association permanent collection and installed in Mechanics Hall’s acoustically perfect grand auditorium located in Worcester, MA.  The three portraits will hang prominently alongside Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, Abbie Kelley Foster, Lucy Stone, and others of their contemporaries. She is working on the project with the Association’s staff, its members, and community members.  

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