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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Through abstract shapes and bold colors, the horrors of racism and segregation of Jim Crow America came to life in Nellie Mae Rowe ...

The American artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-82) was in her sixties—twice widowed, and retired from decades of domestic service—when she began to transform her Atlanta home into what she called her ...

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SPRINGFIELD — Born on the Fourth of July in 1900, Nellie Mae Rowe spent the first half of her life working — as a girl on her family’s farm in Fayette County, Georgia, then as a wife, twice widowed, ...