Anne Moody in the Art Work of James D. Boggan

By Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D.
Chairman, Anne Moody History Project
Copyright (c) 2019

#AnneMoody

James D. Boggan displays his work on civil rights icon Anne Moody.

WOODVILLE, Miss. -- Artist James Douglas Boggan, native of Meridian, Miss., recently completed an art project that made a statement about the civil rights activism of Anne Moody. He created the work for the Anne Moody History Project (AMHP).

Boggan, 38, is incarcerated at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF), Woodville, Miss. He first painted an image of Moody's book, Coming of Age in Mississippi. He followed that with a creative collage that depicts her face against a noticeably white -- and disintegrating -- illustration of Mississippi. He explains he was using color as symbolism. 

"She was black and the state of Mississippi was white-controlled at the time," he says. "The disintegration shows how the system was broken, and people like her showed the cracks in the system."

Boggan says his artistic abilities come naturally. He notes that he was self-taught. 

"It's cool I'm able to contribute to this project," he says. "My mom was real big on civil rights and speaking out on things that she felt were wrong."

Boggan is the son of the late Paula Sue Craig, who passed in January. He says she would have been proud of him. "She liked all of my work."

Boggan's work will be on display at the Anne Moody Memorial Highway dedication on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, in Centreville, Miss. The event, organized by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), will begin at 10 a.m. at the Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church on Highway 24.

VIDEO: Click here to see how the Anne Moody History Project has touched the lives of staff and incarcerated men at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility. 

WCCF is privately managed by Management & Training Corporation (MTC) of Utah.

The art work of James D. Boggan.

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