Bernice Simms

Bernice said I want our children to know what things were like. In the 1980s Bernice Sims enrolled in a community college nearby hoping to sharpen her artistic skills. However, her professor was so impressed by her artwork that he advised her to keep painting her own way. Bernice was active in encouraging voter registration, and was in Selma for the Civil Rights March. In 1995, The United States Postal Service honored Bernice Sims by issuing a stamp of her painting depicting the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Bernice paints with bright oil colors on canvas.

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