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A deeper look at Edward Mitchell Bannister, the Black painter who changed Providence By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated February 4, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Edward Mitchell Bannister s Hay Gatherers, painted around 1893.Wikipedia NEWPORT, R.I. — Making his way through the crowd at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, Edward Mitchell Bannister brushed aside the barbs and the jibes along with the bodies that stood in his way. “As I jostled among them,” he wrote years later, “many resented my presence, some actually commenting within my hearing in the most petulant manner: What is that colored person in here for?”

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