This new publication offers a comprehensive exploration of every Black American artist represented in the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama's preeminent collection of art, spanning the early nineteenth century to the present day. The volume features over 250 artworks across various media, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, quilts, and mixed-media works, by artists living and working both in Alabama, and across the wider United States, including David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary Frances Whitfield, Trena Banks, Purvis Young, Glenn Ligon, Edmonia Lewis, Lorna Simpson, Chakaia Booker, Sam Gilliam, Kerry James Marshall, Joshua Johnson, Nick Cave, Elizabeth Catlett, Amalia Amaki, and Carrie Mae Weems.