The 1960-1970 decade unleashed both hopes for the future and profound change as the Civil Rights movement sought to desegregate public spaces and secure the right to vote for African Americans. Inspired by the voice of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., thousands of courageous people risked their lives to end Jim Crow segregation. Photographs by amateurs, local photojournalists, and internationally known photographers captured the often-dangerous confrontations. The exhibit title adopted the slogan of the sanitation workers’ strike that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was supposed to lead the day after he was assassinated over fifty years ago.
These images bear witness to the violence and brutality that protesters faced with the quiet determination of elders and the angry commitment of the young. Even though the photographs were taken fifty years ago, they remain relevant today and remind us of the brave sacrifices that were made to secure the enforcement of civil rights for African Americans.
This exhibit is a Program of Exhibits USA, a national division of the Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts
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