"This Light of Ours: Activist Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement" tells a visual story of the struggle against segregation, race-based disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. "This Light of Ours" captures the day-to-day struggles of everyday citizens working toward equality and their resolve in the face of violence and institutionalized discrimination.
More than 150 powerful black-and-white photos focus on the activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and are organized around four themes – Black Life, Organizing for Freedom, State and Local Terror, and Meredith March Against Fear and Black Power. The photographs convey SNCC’s distinctive “bottom-up” community organizing strategy as well as the movement’s impact on the national consciousness and use of photos to present critical messages.
Visitors to "This Light of Ours" will see the efforts of unsung heroes in the civil rights movement through the photographs of activist photographers. These nine men and women were themselves a part of the movement and focused their cameras on the local people and student activists who together made it happen.
The exhibit will be on display through May 31.
"This Light of Ours: Activist Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement" tells a visual story of the struggle against segregation, race-based disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. "This Light of Ours" captures the day-to-day struggles of everyday citizens working toward equality and their resolve in the face of violence and institutionalized discrimination.
More than 150 powerful black-and-white photos focus on the activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and are organized around four themes – Black Life, Organizing for Freedom, State and Local Terror, and Meredith March Against Fear and Black Power. The photographs convey SNCC’s distinctive “bottom-up” community organizing strategy as well as the movement’s impact on the national consciousness and use of photos to present critical messages.
Visitors to "This Light of Ours" will see the efforts of unsung heroes in the civil rights movement through the photographs of activist photographers. These nine men and women were themselves a part of the movement and focused their cameras on the local people and student activists who together made it happen.
The exhibit will be on display through May 31.
"This Light of Ours: Activist Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement" tells a visual story of the struggle against segregation, race-based disenfranchisement, and Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. "This Light of Ours" captures the day-to-day struggles of everyday citizens working toward equality and their resolve in the face of violence and institutionalized discrimination.
More than 150 powerful black-and-white photos focus on the activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and are organized around four themes – Black Life, Organizing for Freedom, State and Local Terror, and Meredith March Against Fear and Black Power. The photographs convey SNCC’s distinctive “bottom-up” community organizing strategy as well as the movement’s impact on the national consciousness and use of photos to present critical messages.
Visitors to "This Light of Ours" will see the efforts of unsung heroes in the civil rights movement through the photographs of activist photographers. These nine men and women were themselves a part of the movement and focused their cameras on the local people and student activists who together made it happen.
The exhibit will be on display through May 31.
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