By the time Peggy Cooper Cafritz died earlier this year, she had worked her way from a childhood in the Jim Crow South to become a Washington-based civil rights activist, educator and esteemed art collector whose private compendium of primarily African-American art was one of the largest in the country. Now, the majority of that collection is being given to a pair of organizations that share some of her passions.
The Duke Ellington School is being given works by Hank Willis Thomas, BK Adams, Louise Bourgeois and Mark Thomas Gibson.
October 10, 2018
