Through his vast collection of Black artists work, Kelley preserved and showcased...
Ronald Cortes, for the San Antonio Express News
Beyond his family legacy — his wife of 53 years, Harriet, his daughters Margaret and Jennifer R. Kelley, a licensed clinical social worker with an MBA — he leaves indelible stamps in medicine and, with Harriet, in Black art. “He devoted his whole life to the better obstetrical and gynecological care for his patients, and that was his devotion,” Margaret said. “He mentored me and so many other really young obstetrician-gynecologists, and in this world, they’re mostly women.”During the mid-1980s, realizing how little they knew about Black art, they were inspired to study, reach out to experts and begin collecting.
It’s Jacob Lawrence collecting memories and images from the Great Migration and painting them into 60 magnificent panels.
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