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Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to present The Culture From Which I Sprang, commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It features work by Dewey Crumpler, Wadsworth Jarrell, Lola Flash, Gordon Parks, Greg Rick, Warith Taha, Andre D. Wagner and Philemona Williamson.

The exhibition title is a quote from Richard Wright’s, acclaimed autobiography Black Boy: "This was the culture from which I sprang. This was the terror from which I fled”. Wright’s novel recounts the agonizing years of the Jim Crow Laws between the years of 1912 to 1927 following his childhood and …