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This series is a work in process. I orginally started out to paint images of sharecroppers --- so impressed by their struggles and hardships. I saw great strength in their faces. This initial idea soon expanded into the Great Depression --- and then the discovery that the series was becoming a portrait of life and work itself. We are all connected, whatever our station...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated it so perfectly in his 1967 Christmas Eve sermon.

"It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one directly, affects all indirectly."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Trumpet of Conscience

Click on an image below to see a larger view and to read my commentary on each.

working hands face young face sharecropper's son
African-American woman in her Sunday's best carpenter ready-to-work pullman porter
enemy combatants? man and his grandson at Manzanar leaving on an orphan train
     
     
     
     

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Paintings by Sally K. Green
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