Uzuri celebrates Women’s History at Legacy Fine Arts Gallery
Legacy Fine Art, 804 Central Ave., will host People Helping Others Excel By Example and The Uzuri Project’s exhibit of “Look What We Found! A Photographic Exhibit of John Lee Webb & Mary McLeod Bethune” during Gallery Walk from 6-9 p.m. today to celebrate Women’s History Month.
In recognition of Women’s History Month, the exhibit will focus on the women in the photographs that were recently found in the scrapbook of Webb and Bethune, and be accompanied by a multimedia piece, a news release said.
Bethune was born July 10, 1875. She was an educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist who is best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Fla., which later became Bethune-Cookman University, the release said.
She was appointed as a national adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of what was known as his “Black Cabinet.” She was known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to gain better lives for African-Americans, it said.
Poems celebrating women will be read by Bud Kenny, Cheryl Batts and others at 7 p.m.
Photographs from The John Lee Webb Scrapbook are courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. The project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Black History Commission.
Call 624-9400 or email info@theuzuriproject.org for more information.