“Wanted” advertisement from the early        1700s and 1800s

       Dr. Cora Marshall, Chair of the Art Department, was recently invited to the White House to attend the Celebration of African American History in recognition for her Runaway Slave painting series. The series was based on ads that ran in the 1700s and early 1800s that depicted wanted slaves who escaped captivity. Dr. Marshall was among many noteworthy African Americans who included:

-Dorothy Height, Civil Rights leader and director National Council of Negro Women

-Astronauts Robert Curbeam and Joan Higgenbotham, who helped rewire the International Space Station.

-Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Manhattan) the first black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

-Condoleezza Rice the first black woman to be secretary of state.

-Wesley Autrey of New York, a construction worker who jumped onto the tracks in a subway station to save a man who had fallen from a seizure.

 -Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy, the first black coaches to take their teams to the Super Bowl

Dr. Marshall's Runaway Slave painting series was funded by a CSU-AAUP research grant.

To learn more about The Runaway Slave series, please visit: http://www.coramarshall.com/GalleryImages/Galleries/Gallery2/Gallery2.html