Lucy Diggs Slowe Papers, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
At the famous Black-owned family photography, Scurlock Studio, in Washington, DC, the Berryville, VA, native looks away from the camera in this 3/4 portrait that emphasizes her Edwardian wardrobe. These emerging fashions introduced the "new woman." This woman was educated, athletic, independent, and no longer relegated to the domestic sphere. Standing in side profile, Slowe strategically appropriates the new styles of white feminists to align herself with the endless possibilities racism afforded them, while also rooting herself firmly in the Black community, given these new social conventions.