ICONS OF RACE AMITY

Permanent Exhibit

Artist: Pamela Chatterton-Purdy
Multimedia on Wood

Now on permanent display at the National Race Amity Institute
BE on Edgewood Complex
395 Edgewood Ave, SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30312

About the Art

This series of artworks brings to life the stories of people who exemplified a powerful commitment to interracial friendship and partnership in pursuit of unity and justice. Especially because we are living at a time of such deep racial division, the stories of Race Amity illustrated in this collection inspire us to imagine ways that we can transcend those differences and build greater mutual understanding and respect.

This exhibit is presented in an effort to inspire us to become the best in us, as we grapple, fail and grow as a national community in finding and embracing a dominant moral center based on the scientific and spiritual truth that we are one human family.

About the Artist

Artist Pamela Chatterton-Purdy pioneered the concept of creating icons to depict historic social action in America. Her dynamic first collection, Icons of the Civil Rights Movement, inspired the National Center for Race Amity to commission her to develop the Icons of Race Amity series. Gratitude is noted to her spouse and partner in both enterprises, Rev. David Purdy, Ph.D., who wrote the companion essays on each of the Icons.

Click on each Icon below to learn more about their stories and view additional supporting materials.