A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY
A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY PURPOSE A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY, SCULPTURE TO PRESERVE THE LEGACY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LAWYERS WHO, IN 1925, FOUNDED THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION (NBA), FULLY DEDICATED TO CIVIL RIGHTS, JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM. ARTIST KERRY JAMES MARSHALL, MACARTHUR FOUNDATION “GENIUS GRANTEE”. THE ARTIST HAS REACHED INTERNATIONAL FAME FOR PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, COLLAGE, VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY THAT COMMENT ON THE HISTORY OF BLACK IDENTITY BOTH IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN WESTERN ART. GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION IS A PRIVATE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION. IT RECOGNIZES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION THAT ART BELONGS NOT JUST IN GALLERIES AND MUSEUM, BUT IN STREETSCAPES, PARKS, BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURES OF A THRINVING COMMUNITY. COLLABORATION SUBSTANCE ARCHITECTURE COLLABORATED WITH THE GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION (GDMPAF) AND THE ARTIST, KERRY JAMES MARSHALL, TO REALIZE A COLOSSAL, GEOMETRIC SCULPTURE INSPIRED BY THE SHAPE OF AFRICAN TALKING DRUMS. substance architecture a monumental journey
A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY Before the Civil War The education of African-American in the North was scattered. Only 1.7% of African-American population of school age attended school. It was a crime to educate slaves in most Southern states. A few black slaves were secretly educated before and after the war, with the knowledge of their slave masters. In the North and the West, some blacks, born free or granted their freedom, received some form of education. At least twenty-eight blacks received college degrees prior to the Civil War. America’s fjrst black lawyer 1844 In 1844, Macon Bolling Allen became the fjrst African-American lawyer in the United States. He started his apprenticeship in the offjce of a white lawyer in the state of Maine. At the time, there were nine university-affjliated law schools in the nation. Legal education for blacks, as for whites, began under the apprenticeship of an established lawyer or under the preceptorship of a judge. Macon Bolling Allen First African-American applicant to law school 1850 In 1850, John Mercer Langston applied to a law school in Ballston Spa, New York. Langston is the fjrst African-American applicant to Maine a law school. The school denied his application, unless Langston Minnesota consented “to pass” as a Frenchman or a Spaniard. If Langston Oregon agreed to “pass”, he would have to sit “apart from the class; ask Wisconsin no questions and behave quietly.” Langston refused since that Michigan would have meant to give up on his American rights. Langston was Iowa also denied admission to another law school, located in Cincinnati, Nevada Ohio I n d Ohio. i a Illinois n a Colorado Virginia California North Carolina John Mercer Langston New Mexico 1861 Florida Civil War 1865 substance architecture a monumental journey
A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY Before the Civil War The education of African-American in the North was scattered. Only 1.7% of African-American population of school age attended school. It was a crime to educate slaves in most Southern states. A few black slaves were secretly educated before and after the war, with the knowledge of their slave masters. In the North and the West, some blacks, born free or granted their freedom, received some form of education. At least twenty-eight blacks received college degrees prior to the Civil War. America’s fjrst black lawyer 1844 In 1844, Macon Bolling Allen became the fjrst African-American lawyer in the United States. He started his apprenticeship in the offjce of a white lawyer in the state of Maine. At the time, there were nine university-affjliated law schools in the nation. Legal education for blacks, as for whites, began under the apprenticeship of an established lawyer or under the preceptorship of a judge. Macon Bolling Allen First African-American applicant to law school 1850 In 1850, John Mercer Langston applied to a law school in Ballston Spa, New York. Langston is the fjrst African-American applicant to Maine a law school. The school denied his application, unless Langston Minnesota consented “to pass” as a Frenchman or a Spaniard. If Langston Oregon agreed to “pass”, he would have to sit “apart from the class; ask Wisconsin no questions and behave quietly.” Langston refused since that Michigan would have meant to give up on his American rights. Langston was Iowa also denied admission to another law school, located in Cincinnati, Nevada Ohio I n d Ohio. i a Illinois n a Colorado Virginia California North Carolina John Mercer Langston New Mexico 1861 Florida Civil War 1865 substance architecture a monumental journey
A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY Before the Civil War The education of African-American in the North was scattered. Only 1.7% of African-American population of school age attended school. It was a crime to educate slaves in most Southern states. A few black slaves were secretly educated before and after the war, with the knowledge of their slave masters. In the North and the West, some blacks, born free or granted their freedom, received some form of education. At least twenty-eight blacks received college degrees prior to the Civil War. America’s fjrst black lawyer 1844 In 1844, Macon Bolling Allen became the fjrst African-American lawyer in the United States. He started his apprenticeship in the offjce of a white lawyer in the state of Maine. At the time, there were nine university-affjliated law schools in the nation. Legal education for blacks, as for whites, began under the apprenticeship of an established lawyer or under the preceptorship of a judge. Macon Bolling Allen First African-American applicant to law school 1850 In 1850, John Mercer Langston applied to a law school in Ballston Spa, New York. Langston is the fjrst African-American applicant to Maine a law school. The school denied his application, unless Langston Minnesota consented “to pass” as a Frenchman or a Spaniard. If Langston Oregon agreed to “pass”, he would have to sit “apart from the class; ask Wisconsin no questions and behave quietly.” Langston refused since that Michigan would have meant to give up on his American rights. Langston was Iowa also denied admission to another law school, located in Cincinnati, Nevada Ohio I n d Ohio. i a Illinois n a Colorado Virginia California North Carolina John Mercer Langston New Mexico 1861 Florida Civil War 1865 substance architecture a monumental journey
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