The Wall of Respect: public art and Black liberation in 1960s Chicago

Introduction / Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, and Rebecca Zorach

I. Looking at the Wall of Respect. Painters, poets, and performance : looking at the Wall of Respect / Rebecca Zorach

Poetry. The Wall / Gwendolyn Brooks ; The Wall / Don L. Lee (Haki Madhubuti) ; Black culture / Useni Eugene Perkins ; Black art spirits / Alicia L. Johnson

II. Heroes and heroines. The heroes and heroines of the Wall of Respect / Abdul Alkalimat, with contributions by Rebecca Zorach

III. The wall in history and cultural politics. Black Chicago : the context for the Wall of respect / Abdul Alkalimat ; Black liberation : OBAC and the makers of the Wall of Respect / Abdul Alkalimat

OBAC documents. Invitation letter and statement of purposes / The Committee for the Arts (Gerald A. McWorter, Hoyt W. Fuller, Conrad Rivers) ; Black people and their art / Gerald A. McWorter ; Festival of the Arts / OBAC ; OBAC position paper : some ideological considerations / Gerald A. McWorter ; Inaugural program / OBAC ; Visual Arts Workshop report / OBAC (prepared by Myrna Weaver and Jeff Donaldson) ; OBAC : Organization of Black American Culture ("all-purpose handout") / Gerald A. McWorter ; An invitation to OBAC dialogues : rappin' Black / Joseph Simpson ; By-laws of the Organization of Black American Culture / Hoyt W. Fuller and Gerald A. McWorter ; Who is on the wall and why / Gerald A. McWorter ; What is a Black hero? / OBAC ; Black heroes / OBAC Officer transition (memorandum) / OBAC ; OBAC progress meeting (letter) / Hoyt W. Fuller and Joseph Simpson

Black Arts Movement articles. Culture consciousness in Chicago / Hoyt W. Fuller ; The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians / Muhal Richard Abrams and John Shenoy Jackson ; OBAC : a year later / Hoyt W. Fuller ; Toward a Black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller

IV. The impact of photography. Black photographers who take Black pictures / Romi Crawford ; Camera works and the Wall of Respect / Romi Crawford

V. Reverberations. Conflict and change on the Wall / Rebecca Zorach

Reverberations. Wall paintings on 43d St. show Black man's triumph / Sam Washington, The Defender, August 28, 1967 ; Crowds gather as 'Wall' is formally dedicated / Dave Potter, The Defender, October 2, 1967 ; Wall of Respect : artists paint images of Black dignity in heart of city ghetto / Ebony, December 1967 ; The rise, fall, and legacy of the Wall of Respect movement / Jeff Donaldson, The International review of African American art, 1991 ; Interview with William Walker (excerpt) / Victor Sorell, June 1991 ; William Walker discusses the Wall : Chicago mural group conversation, 1971 ; Interview with Eugene "Eda" Wade (excerpt) / Rebecca Zorach and Marissa Baker, 2015 ; The Wall of Respect : how Chicago artists gave birth to the ethnic mural / Norman Parish III, Chicago tribune, August 23, 1992 ; Wall of Respect symposium (excerpt) / opening address by Romi Crawford and Roundtable discussion, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 2015 ; The Wall / Roger Bonair-Asgard.