Emory Douglas used to be a member of a group called Black Panther. During the exhibition on one of the walls there was a speech wrote on it which explained how the group name came along. It goes;
"You know the nature of a panther is that if you push it sooner or later it is going to come out of that corner to try and wipe out who's oppressing it. This is like Racism, keeps everyone pushed into a corner."
A lot of Emory's work was based upon Racism, how black people don't get treated equally nor correctly. Douglas' work was produced a lot of the time on the wall's of the ghetto. fences, doorways and storefront windows etc.
When i viewed the the exhibition i found the art very striking and powerful. This was down to how it showed the past and how racism and fascism was such a bad thing back in the 60's - when i wasn't around to witness or experience such a thing.
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