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Jeff Donaldson Papers
Donated in 2015 by Jameela Donaldson, daughter of Jeff Donaldson
The papers of painter-activist-educator Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004) chronicle early activities of AfriCOBRA, a radical artist collective founded in Chicago in 1968. Invigorated by the response of OBAC's 1967 street mural, the Wall of Respect, Donaldson, along with Wadsworth Jarrell (b. 1929) and Barbara Jones-Hugu (b. 1938), assembled about a dozen local African American artists in Chicago for the radical aim of creating and disseminating imagery supporting Black Liberation. In 1970, Donaldson moved to Washington, DC, to become chair of Howard University's Department of Art, where he would remain a key organizer of AfriCOBRA programs. |