Benny and George Andrews
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| Type: | Color photographs |
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| Title: | Benny and George Andrews |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Description: | Photograph of Benny Andrews, an acclaimed artist and activist, conducting an outreach program at Augusta, Georgia's Copeland Elementary School in 1997. He wears a leather jacket and writes on a green chalkboard. Andrews taught at Queens College in New York City for twenty-nine years and cofounded both the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and the Benny Andrews Foundation. |
| Subjects: | Artists--Georgia--Augusta | African American artists--Georgia--Augusta | Schools--Georgia--Augusta | College teachers--Georgia--Augusta | Men--Georgia--Augusta | African American men--Georgia--Augusta | Teachers--Georgia--Augusta | Civil rights workers--Georgia--Augusta | African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Augusta | Elementary schools--Georgia--Augusta | Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006 | Augusta (Ga.) | Richmond County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia | Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, Ga.) |
| Rights and Usage: | Courtesy of Morris Museum of Art. |
| Related Materials: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1042 | Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-7359 |
| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |