Black Women’s Wisdom: Misty Copeland
Ben Blount American
Not on view
Black Women’s Wisdom (2021.60.7-.10) commemorates the contributions of four boundary-breaking Black women through their own inspirational words. These figures include Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre; attorney Jane Bolin, who became the first Black female judge in the United States; Marian Anderson, the first African American singer to perform as a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York; and civil rights leader Amelia Boynton. Blount chose to foreground trailblazing women whose legacies continue to be overlooked in mainstream narratives of U.S. history.
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