David C. Driskell delivers his acceptance speech after receiving the Lifetime Legacy Award from Skowhegan. CONTRIBUTED
Driskell, front row, left, with some church congregation members in Eatonton. FILE PHOTO
Hunts Chapel AME Church. FILE PHOTO
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Alice Walker and the late Tuskegee Airman Hiram E. Little are both prominent Black Eatonton natives recognized with pride in the local community.
But there’s a third person who seems to have slipped quietly under the local “famous” radar who is widely recognized in the international art world and even has a center at a university named in his honor.
