05 – Women are the base of the Freedom Movement, and they bring their whole families.

16″ x 20″ archival print. Interleaf text shown here. Actual interleaf is 16″ x 20″ printed on vellum.

“But why are the African race, born in the State, not permitted to share in one of the highest duties of the citizen? The answer is obvious; he is not, by the institutions and laws of the State, numbered among its people. He forms no part of the sovereignty of the State, and is not therefore called on to uphold and defend it.”

– Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney, from the Dred Scott Decision, 1857