Knowledge Trust
Our 32nd broadside was created in honor of the Black women who work to protect the pillars of democracy and freedom.
“Education and justice are democracy’s only life insurance.”
— Nannie Helen Burroughs
An educator, activist, and suffragist, Burroughs contributed to the suffrage movement through the circles of education and religion. With a devout belief in both her Baptist faith and the power of women’s collectives, Burroughs created the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1909. Funded with grassroots donations, the school focused on vocational skills for future working Black women, and a dedication to teaching the true history of Black America. Our broadside is filled with allusions to education, powerful pen strokes, turn-of-the-20th-century typography, suffrage colors, and democratic symbols.
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Year created
2022
At issue
Celebrating the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court, while warning against multiple attacks on education, justice, and democracy: the January 6 insurrection, a constant flow of pandemic mis- and disinformation, new voter suppression laws around the US, secretive court dockets, a resurgence in banned books, the suppression of teaching our true history under the specter of “critical race theory,” and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Edition size
190 prints
Significance of edition number
At the National Baptist Convention (NBC)’s annual meeting in 1900, Burroughs’ speech “How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping” gained national attention and inspired her to co-found the NBC auxiliary Woman’s Convention, the largest Black women’s organization in the United States.
Donation
A portion of the proceeds were donated, via Action Grants from the Dead Feminists Fund, to She the People, a non-profit focused on reaching and enfranchising women voters of color. In light of the situation in Ukraine, we will be making a second donation to Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights to aid women, trans, and nonbinary activists fighting to save their own democracy there.