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Doris Derby’s Searing, Intimate Photos of the Civil Rights Movement

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford November 15, 2021November 15, 2021

A book presents more than 110 pictures from Derby’s archive, offering a rich panorama of the key people and places behind the movement.

Posted inFilm

A John Lewis Documentary Probes Tensions Between National and State Power

by Eileen G’Sell July 4, 2020November 5, 2020

For any American even mildly ignorant of the rich, complex legacy of Civil Rights within our decidedly disunited country, Dawn Porter’s John Lewis: Good Trouble should be mandatory viewing.

Posted inArt

A VR Experience Offers a First-Person View of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 6, 2018August 3, 2021

I Am A Man by Derek Ham is a VR interactive story set in 1968 Memphis that puts you in the shoes of a striking sanitation worker.

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Drawings of Daily Resistance from the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 3, 2018August 31, 2018

The Delaware Art Museum is exhibiting a series of drawings by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman of the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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575,000 Images by Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Go to Library of Congress

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 27, 2017March 27, 2017

The institution has acquired a massive archive of Adelman’s work, including his 1960s photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Rescuing Norman Rockwell’s Progressive Legacy from a Right-Wing Cartoonist

by Angus Johnston February 17, 2017February 16, 2017

The artist was no reactionary. He was a staunch liberal and a strong believer in an inclusive country.

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Right-wing Cartoonist Inserts Betsy DeVos into Iconic Civil Rights Painting

by Jillian Steinhauer February 14, 2017February 16, 2017

Glenn McCoy appropriated Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With,” replacing the six-year-old black girl who desegregated a public school with the billionaire Secretary of Education.

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Three Civil Rights Sites Become National Monuments

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 13, 2017

President Barack Obama designated as national monuments three Southern sites connected with the Civil Rights movement and post-Civil War Reconstruction.

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Rare Photographs of the US Civil Rights Struggle Beyond the South

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 30, 2016December 6, 2016

A new book by Mark Speltz brings together over 100 rarely or never-before-published photographs from the Civil Rights era that show its grassroots actions beyond the South.

Posted inArt

Celebrate Voting Rights at These Suffragists’ Graves in New York City

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 8, 2016November 8, 2016

Honor the memory of suffragists in New York City at these memorials for the movement’s leading figures.

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1930s Slave Murals in Alabama Could Be Removed After Petition Gains Steam

by Laura C. Mallonee October 13, 2015October 13, 2015

Imagine walking into a courthouse for jury duty and finding yourself surrounded by scenes depicting your enslaved ancestors. That’s what many black people in Jefferson County, Alabama, have been experiencing for the past eight decades.

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Members of the Illuminator Sue NYPD for False Arrest, First Amendment Retaliation

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 21, 2015May 21, 2015

This week members of the Illuminator Art Collective filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York alleging false arrest and improper seizure of their property by the NYPD’s Central Park Precinct.

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