Alma Thomas in her studio, ca 1960s
This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Alma Woodsey Thomas: Artist and Educator, 1891-1978
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Alma Woodsey Thomas: Artist and Educator, 1891-1978
Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Alma Woodsey Thomas: Artist and Educator, 1891-1978
Alma Thomas was 15 years old in 1907 when she and her family left Columbus, Georgia for Washington, D.C. They were part of the Great Migration, when many African American families left the South to…