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Delilah W. Pierce Among The First Organized Group Of American Blacks To Travel To Ethiopia In 1962

[Updated 2/2024) On June 23 of 1962 Delilah W. Pierce and a group of business owners, educators, and clergy left for an organized trip...

Stephen McDow

Jul 25, 20132 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Helped In Fight For Federal Aid To Education Bill

President Harry Truman was the President of the United States from 1945 to 1953, a time of grand expectations in post WWII America. He...

Stephen McDow

Jul 16, 20132 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Participates In District of Columbia Appropriation Bill For 1941 Hearings Before T

As a member of the Phi Delta Kappa Sorority, Delilah W. Pierce fought so that Washington, DC and all underserved school districts,...

Stephen McDow

Jul 15, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Hosted Phi Delta Kappa Meeting In The Gold Coast

Delilah W. Pierce hosted a planning meeting of the Phi Delta Kappa sorority at her home in the Washington, DC Gold Coast – A nickname for...

Stephen McDow

Jul 3, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Helped Address Gender & Racial Inequality In Forever Free: Art By African-Amer

Delilah W. Pierce not only helped to expand black identity perceptions during her life and career as an artist, curator, educator and...

Stephen McDow

Jun 17, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Very Much Part Of Black Arts Movement: Expanding Black Identity Perceptions

Delilah W. Pierce helped expand the Black Arts Movement with her figurative and abstract paintings. Her art helped express the diversity...

Stephen McDow

Jun 11, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Helps A Great Depression Business Make History

On September 12, 1950 Delilah W. Pierce was featured in an article highlighting the achievements of a Washington, DC business called The...

Stephen McDow

May 12, 20132 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Gives Talk – Promoted In The Washingtonian Magazine

Delilah W. Pierce was a very active artist, curator, and educator. One of her talks was promoted in The Washingtonian Magazine in 1985....

Stephen McDow

May 7, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Included In The Women’s Studies Encyclopedia

Author Helen Tierney published a cannon of female African American painters. In her anthology she covered the wider expressions of...

Stephen McDow

Apr 26, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Featured In The Art of Black American Women

Delilah W. Pierce dedicated her life to fighting for equal rights for women, equal education, and fairness for people of color. Her art...

Stephen McDow

Apr 26, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Listed At Current Washington Water Color Association Event

The Washington Water Color Association is holding its Spring Art Exhibition from March 5 to May 31 2013 at the Woman’s National...

Stephen McDow

Apr 24, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Recognized With MLK Leadership Award

In 1992, before her death, Delilah W. Pierce received an award for being a leader in art and education at the then 5th annual Martin...

Stephen McDow

Apr 22, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce & Husband Included in Library Of Congress’ The Negro In The United State

Prior to 1970 African American’s and their works were not catalogued in the Library of Congress, unless it was fiction. Dorothy B....

Stephen McDow

Apr 22, 20133 min read

Delilah W. Pierce Featured in Bearing Witness: Contemporary works by African American women artists

In 1996 Delilah W. Pierce’s art was featured in Bearing Witness: Contemporary words by African American women artists. The book was...

Stephen McDow

Apr 22, 20131 min read

Delilah W. Pierce’s Husband Joseph A Man Of Many Firsts – An African American of Excelle

Delilah W. Pierce’s husband, Joseph L. Pierce, was a man of distinction, integrity, and high pursuits during a very complex time in...

Stephen McDow

Mar 31, 20131 min read