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Credit Matt Peiken | BPR News Even in his early days making paintings, Joseph Pearson understood there was no place in and around Gulfport, Miss., for Black artists. “There were no artists that I knew in the neighborhood who were doing anything,” Pearson recalled. “If there were, of course, they would have been white artists and we wouldn’t have had contact because of segregation.” Pearson emerged from the 1960s of the Deep South with two compulsions: Learn from Black artists and make paintings addressing racial injustice. “Every book I could get my hands on, I’d look for artists who primarily looked like me,” he said. ....