Posters: Literary Figures of Color from CT

Classroom resource. By Vy Tran and José Garcia. In collaboration with Steven Tatum.

Four images of literary figures of color from Hartford and Connecticut— download and print as posters for a radical classroom space.

The following posters for Lucy Cooper Summers and Ann Plato are accompanied by literature from both authors.

Summers’ poem “Joseph Cinque” imagines the life of Sengbe Pieh who was captured and enslaved onboard the Amistad but resisted his captors and overtook the ship. It is a short, speculative and thought provoking piece on resistance.

Plato’s “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry,” includes two short stories, “Two School Girls” and “Lessons from Nature” that introduce students to forms of knowledge and learning that take place outside of the classroom—in museums, in the outdoors, and in students’ day-to-day lives.

Click the image to read Ann Plato’s “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”

Click the image to read Lucy Cooper Summers’ “Joseph Cinque”