America’s Making Exposition

1921

The exposition highlighted Black achievement in the arts, education, and industry.

The America’s Making Exposition celebrated the positive impact of America’s ethnic immigrant groups. Organized by various cultural committees, its African American section was co-chaired by James Weldon Johnson, famed writer of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” and Eugene K. Jones, a founder of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Johnson and Jones focused on Black achievement in the arts, education, and industry.

The America’s Making Exposition organizers published a book about the exhibition. Featured on the “Americans of Negro Lineage” page, Fuller’s Ethiopia is described as a “Symbolic Statue of the EMANCIPATION of the NEGRO RACE.”