Exhibition poster - Sam Uriah Morris Society
Object
Poster
Production date
c.2000
Object number
2022.171
Physical Description
A yellow paper A4 poster about the Sam Uriah Morris Society's exibition on The Black Contribution to Culture and Civilisation.
Object history
This is a poster advertising a Black History exhibition by the Sam Uriah Morris Society.
The Sam Uriah Morris Society (est. c.1980) was a non-profit exhibition centre on Lower Clapton Road aiming to demonstrate the thriving variety of arts of Afro-Caribbean peoples through performances, exhibitions, lectures and meetings.
The Sam Uriah Morris Society (est. c.1980) was a non-profit exhibition centre on Lower Clapton Road aiming to demonstrate the thriving variety of arts of Afro-Caribbean peoples through performances, exhibitions, lectures and meetings.
Personal experiences
"I'm attached to the Black History Museum Centre in Hackney, which I started about 20 years ago. And in that Museum, one can find a brief description or a picture, or some notes on most black people who have contributed in one way or another, to culture and civilisation. Some have done things that, although we use them on a day to-day basis, we do not realise that they were first done, or discovered, by black people.
I've been happy that I've been attached to that, because it gives me a lot of joy to be able to see what some of my ancestors did, whether it was someone turn around and thinking that they was hard done by when they see the pressures that they had to do things under."
- Ralph Straker, 2004
I've been happy that I've been attached to that, because it gives me a lot of joy to be able to see what some of my ancestors did, whether it was someone turn around and thinking that they was hard done by when they see the pressures that they had to do things under."
- Ralph Straker, 2004
Associated Person
Ralph Adolphus Straker OBE (Founder)
Material
Paper
Dimension
Length: 297mm
Width: 210mm
Width: 210mm
On display?
No
Inscription
Sam Uriah Morris Society presents
The Black Contribution to Culture and Civilisation.
An Exhibition on Black History
at Harriet Tubman House
136a-142a Lower Clapton Road London E5 0QJ.
The centre provides a permanent exhibition of black achievement in culture and civilisation; also a costume and dress design workshop on the ground floor. The first floor caters for a dance studio, an audio visual workshop and cafeteria.
For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences.
I am happy to be able to bring this information to the attention of the world, so that on the one hand, all races and creeds might know the truth and free themselves from those prejudices which have corrupted human relations; and on the other hand, that the people of African origin might be emancipated from their serfdom of inferiority complex, and enter upon a new era of freedom, in which they would feel like free men, with full human rights and privileges
George G.M. James
(Stolen Legacy)
The Black Contribution to Culture and Civilisation.
An Exhibition on Black History
at Harriet Tubman House
136a-142a Lower Clapton Road London E5 0QJ.
The centre provides a permanent exhibition of black achievement in culture and civilisation; also a costume and dress design workshop on the ground floor. The first floor caters for a dance studio, an audio visual workshop and cafeteria.
For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences.
I am happy to be able to bring this information to the attention of the world, so that on the one hand, all races and creeds might know the truth and free themselves from those prejudices which have corrupted human relations; and on the other hand, that the people of African origin might be emancipated from their serfdom of inferiority complex, and enter upon a new era of freedom, in which they would feel like free men, with full human rights and privileges
George G.M. James
(Stolen Legacy)