John Thomas Biggers

Place: Gastonia

Born: 1924

Death: 2001

Biography:

John Thomas Biggers was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1924 and died in Houston, Texas in 2001. Biggers created works critical of racial and economic injustice. He also served as the founding chairman of the art department at Houston's Texas State University for Negroes (now Texas Southern University), a historically black college.