A beacon of hope, Aaron Douglas's Aspiration

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From a channel Lumen includes in full: Smarthistory is a nonprofit art-history resource in which art historians and museum curators discuss individual works across world art, built to support university survey courses.

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A 8-minute video from Smarthistory's catalogue; the title names its topic.

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Part of Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, Oppression and resistance, the long history of African American struggle seen through art and artifacts, 1907-1960

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