Monday Mural: MLK Cultural Korridor

Here is a detail from a larger mural previously featured here.  It presents a dignified portrait of Marcus Garvey, who lead the Back to Africa movement of the early 20th century.  This is a work from the Community Rejuvenation Project, which is responsible for many of Oakland's murals.

If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme's for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  You get to decide what constitutes a mural.  Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters.  Can't wait to see the mural finds posted this week.

Monday Mural: words to contemplate

This mural is under the 580 freeway at the start of the Lakeshore District.

Monday mural: pride and self-determination

ABC Wednesday: E is for Ella Baker

Ella Baker was a seminal figure in the Civil Rights movement.  Among her many accomplishments was her role in founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which organized the Freedom Summer drive in 1964 to register southern blacks to vote.  Her name graces the Ella Baker Center in Oakland which works for social justice issues and green jobs in the Bay Area.  For other E posts, visit ABC Wednesday.

Monday Mural: elements of power, visions of change

This mural was done in 1999 by students at Laney College.  Despite the words of hope, the surrounding community has not prospered.  A neighbor told me that this apartment building has been vacant for the past several months.  So far, no one is squatting in it.

ABC Wednesday: D is for CL Dellums

C.L. Dellums' statue stands in front of the Amtrak Station in Jack London Square.  Dellums, a porter for the Pullman Company, is best known for helping found The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the the 1920s. It was the first labor organization led by African-Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).  Dellums was its vice president and its second president and was a leader in the civil rights movement.  He was also president of the local NAACP for many years.  Having moved from the South early in life, he lived in Oakland and died here in 1989.  He is also the uncle of Ron Dellums, our former long-time congressman and recent mayor.  Visit ABC Wednesday for more "D" post.

Monday mural: black history month

February is Black History Month.  This mural is at the Ella Baker Center on 40th Street.  Huey Newton and the Black Panthers are featured in this one.