Let me tell you about the first African American and Native American female sculptor of the 19th and 20th centuries, the unstoppable Edmonia Wildfire Lewis!
Bibliography
American Civil War Music, Fives and Drums, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8epv1Y25XA
Anne Quincy Waterston, The Young Colored Woman Who has Successfully Modelled the Bust of Col. Shaw, Scholarly Editing, Originally published December 31st, 1864, https://scholarlyediting.org/2013/editions/aa.18641231.4.html
Henderson & Henderson, The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis, A Narrative Biography, Esquiline Hill Press, 2013
Nelson, Charmaine A. (2007). The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Reno, Bobbie, Edmonia Lewis, An Artist of Determination and Courage,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PEiDsaodOQ&t=11s
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Edmonia Lewis, https://americanart.si.edu/artist/edmonia-lewis-2914
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