The activist collector : Lida Clanton Broner's 1938 journey from Newark to South Africa /
"After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers." So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895-1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Af...
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Newark, New Jersey : New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Newark Museum of Art ; Rutgers University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530861 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : "Desire and determination"
- A transatlantic friendship
- From personal pilgrimage to political purpose
- "Welcome to Africa!"
- Onward and inward to the Transvaal and Natal
- Return to the eastern Cape and voyage home
- Activist exhibitions
- The Newark Museum and beyond
- Epilogue: Mother of the Oceans.