Introduction Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, and Rebecca Zorach I. Looking at the Wall of Respect Painters, Poets, and Performance: Looking at the Wall of Respect Rebecca Zorach Poetry The Wall Gwendolyn Brooks The Wall Don L. Lee (Haki Madhubuti) Black Culture (For the WALL at 43rd and Langley) Eugene Perkins (Useni Eugene Perkins) Black Art Spirits Alicia Johnson II. Heroes and Heroines The Heroes and Heroines of the Wall of Respect Abdul Alkalimat, with contributions by Rebecca Zorach III. The Wall in History and Cultural Politics Black Chicago: The Context for the Wall of Respect Abdul Alkalimat Black Liberation: OBAC and the Makers of the Wall of Respect Abdul Alkalimat OBAC Documents Invitation Letter and Statement of Purposes The Committee for the Arts (Gerald A. McWorter, Hoyt W. Fuller, Conrad Rivers) Black People and Their Art Gerald A. McWorter Festival of the Arts OBAC OBAC Position Paper: Some Ideological Considerations Gerald A.
McWorter Inaugural Program OBAC Visual Arts Workshop Report OBAC (prepared by Myrna Weaver and Jeff Donaldson) OBAC: Organization of Black American Culture ("all-purpose handout") Gerald McWorter An Invitation to OBAC Dialogues: Rappin'' Black Joseph Simpson By-laws of the Organization of Black American Culture Hoyt W. Fuller and Gerald A. McWorter Who Is on the Wall and Why Gerald A. McWorter What Is a Black Hero? OBAC Officer Transition (memorandum) OBAC OBAC Progress Meeting (letter) Hoyt W. Fuller and Joseph Simpson Black Arts Movement Articles Culture Consciousness in Chicago Hoyt W. Fuller The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Muhal Richard Abrams and John Shenoy Jackson OBAC: A Year Later Hoyt W. Fuller Toward a Black Aesthetic Hoyt W. Fuller IV.
The Impact of Photography at the Wall of Respect Black Photographers Who Take Black Pictures: Camera Works and the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford Camera Works Romi Crawford V. Reverberations Conflict and Change on the Wall Rebecca Zorach Reverberations Wall Paintings on 43d St Show Black Man''s Triumph Sam Washington, The Defender Crowds Gather as ''Wall'' Is Formally Dedicated Dave Potter, The Defender Wall of Respect: Artists Paint Images of Black Dignity in Heart of City Ghetto Ebony The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of the Wall of Respect Movement Jeff Donaldson Interview with William Walker (excerpt) Victor Sorell William Walker Discusses the Wall Chicago Mural Group Conversation, 1971 Interview with Eugene "Eda" Wade (excerpt) Rebecca Zorach and Marissa Baker Wall of Respect: How Chicago Artists Gave Birth to the Ethnic Mural Norman Parish III Wall of Respect Symposium (excerpt) Opening Address by Romi Crawford and Roundtable Discussion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 2015 The Wall Roger Bonair-Asgard Acknowledgments Bibliography Credits Index.