Pioneer of Color: A Conversation with Lois Mailou Jones

1993

This record is part of the Visual Art section of the Soul of Black Identity special collection. Lois Mailou Jones, who broke many barriers as a female African American artist is interviewed. She recounts her life as an artist and a Black woman from the early 1900s on. Included are stories about close friends, such as Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, and Josephine Baker among others. Jones goes into detail about how living abroad differed from living in the racial climate of the United States