Lava Thomas deals with racial and gender issues by drawing from the African roots of her family and the socio-political events of the past and the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The series of drawings Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott <\/em>offers a contemporary gaze at the important legacy of the activism of women of color against the social injustices that were taking place in the United States against African Americans. In the 1950s the buses in Montgomery, Alabama, had three separate sections: one for whites, one for African Americans, and one for both. But if an African American was sitting in one of the common seats, and a white person got on the bus and couldn\u2019t find a seat in their section, the African American had to give up his or her seat. The protest known as the\u00a0Montgomery Bus Boycott\u00a0began in 1955 in Montgomery when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, and many other women followed her example. Lava Thomas\u2019s Mugshot Portraits <\/em>are portraits based on the mugshots of the women who were charged with Alabama\u2019s anti-boycott laws. While the original photographs aimed to criminalize those women, Mugshot Portraits <\/em>celebrate their crucial work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":508,"template":"","categorie_opere":[],"curatela":[33],"class_list":["post-1039","opere","type-opere","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","curatela-clarice-pecori-gilardi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n