Charles White
| Photograph from Images of Dignity: The Drawings of Charles White. [Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, [1967]. With Foreword by Harry Belafonte who states: "There is a powerful, sometimes violent beauty in [Charles White's] artistic interpretations … ." The works of Charles White highlight significant aspects of African-American realities. Celebrated for his portraits, graphic designs and oil paintings, in 1940 White was commissioned to paint the mural to be exhibited in Chicago by The Associated Press. He was awarded the International Graphic Show Gold Medal in 1960. Online Catalog Record |
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| Pencil drawing of Sojourner Truth and Booker T. Washington, by Charles White, ca. 1944, from Black Artists: Two Generations. Newark: The Newark Museum, 1971. Online Catalog Record |  |
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 | Portrait of Frederick Douglass, from Four Took Freedom: The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce, written by Philip Sterling; illustrated by Charles White. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1967. Online Catalog Record |
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| Portrait of Harriet Tubman, from Four Took Freedom: The Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche K. Bruce, written by Philip Sterling; illustrated by Charles White. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967. Online Catalog Record |  |
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