{"id":830,"date":"2024-07-23T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/?post_type=mwhof&#038;p=830"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:04:26","slug":"charlotte-lottie-wilson","status":"publish","type":"mwhof","link":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/charlotte-lottie-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte \u201cLottie\u201d Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>(1854 \u2013 1914)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlotte \u201cLottie\u201d Wilson was a nationally renowned artist and suffragist. She was the first African-American to graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lottie created busts of famous African-Americans such as Frederick Douglass and Phillis Wheatley. In 1892, she gifted a painting of Charles Sumner to Provident Hospital in Chicago and in 1894, a painting of Booker T. Washington to the Tuskegee Institute. In 1901, Lottie exhibited her works at the headquarters of the Women\u2019s Educational and Industrial Union on Niagara Square in downtown Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dedicated advocate of women\u2019s rights, Lottie gave talks about women\u2019s progress at churches and art studios throughout the late 1800s. She spoke at the first annual convention of the League of Colored Women in Washington D.C. (1896) and the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association convention (1898). In 1899, Lottie served as the Bay City representative at the National Women\u2019s Suffrage Association Convention in Dunkirk, New York. In 1897, she helped establish the Phillis Wheatley Home in Detroit, a chapter of the national African-American women\u2019s club that provided lodging, educational and recreational programs, and a forum for discussing political issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After divorcing her husband, Lottie moved her art studio to Washington D.C. and in 1902 painted <em>President Lincoln with a Former Slave<\/em>, depicting her interpretation of the iconic 1864 meeting of President Lincoln and Sojourner Truth; an earlier painting depicting a similar scene by Franklin C. Courter was destroyed in a fire that same year. President Theodore Roosevelt displayed Wilson\u2019s work in The White House, making Lottie the first African-American to have her work exhibited there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Niles District Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":831,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-830","mwhof","type-mwhof","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charlotte \u201cLottie\u201d Wilson - Michigan Women Forward<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Charlotte \u201cLottie\u201d Wilson was a nationally renowned artist and suffragist.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/charlotte-lottie-wilson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charlotte \u201cLottie\u201d Wilson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charlotte \u201cLottie\u201d Wilson was a nationally renowned artist and suffragist.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/charlotte-lottie-wilson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Michigan Women Forward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichiganWomenForward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-23T18:04:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/charlotte-lottie-wilson.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/charlotte-lottie-wilson\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/charlotte-lottie-wilson\/\",\"name\":\"Charlotte \u201cLottie\u201d Wilson - 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