Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

A community program will be held at the Carver-McDonald Branch Library at 2941 Renwick St. Monroe, LA on Thursday September 21, 2023 at 11:30 am by Tom Whitehead, a retired journalist professor from LSU. Tom Whitehead is a leading expert on Hunter’s works of Art. Clementine Hunter born late December 1886 or early January 1887 – January 1, 1988) and the first of seven children. Clementeen Hunter was a self-taught Black folk artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation. Hunter was born into a Louisiana Creole family at Hidden Hill Plantation...