New Arrivals: BLACK EMERGENCY CULTURAL COALITION AND ARTISTS AND WRITERS PROTEST AGAINST THE WA

New Arrivals: BLACK EMERGENCY CULTURAL COALITION AND ARTISTS AND WRITERS PROTEST AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM [1971].

Collaboration of artwork and poetry by members of the BECC and Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, compiled by BECC co-founder Benny Andrews and anti-war artist/activist Rudolf Baranik. The BECC was originally formed in 1969 in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit “Harlem On My Mind,” which excluded any contributions by African-American artists. In 1971, in response to riots at the Attica correctional facility in New York, the Coalition organized the Arts Exchange Program, providing art classes for prisoners taught by members of the BECC. Among the contributors are Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Dana Chandler, Leon Golub, Alvin Hollingsworth, Jacob Lawrence, and Faith Ringgold, among many others.