Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86). Catalog of an exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art, Nov. 9-Dec. 19, 1992. The exhibition was organized by the Massachusetts College of Art and the Department of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
Contents:
Foreword / Margaret Walker -- Introduction / Michele Furst -- Picturing the black experience and framing the civil rights photography of Ernest C. Withers / Ronald W. Bailey -- The Emmett Till murder trial, Sumner, Mississippi, 1955 -- School desegregation, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 -- Memphis, Tennessee in the 1950s and 60s -- Voter registration and the Tent City protest, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960 -- James Meredith and the Mississippi Campaign, 1962 and 1966 -- Medgar Evers, 1925-1963 -- Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, 1955 -- Sanitation Workers' Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 -- Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968 -- Poor People's Campaign, Marks, Mississippi and Washington, DC, 1968 -- Afterword / Ronald W. Bailey -- Bibliography.
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