Research Catalog

Title

Road to freedom : photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 / Julian Cox ; introduction by Charles Johnson ; afterword by John Lewis.

Author

Cox, Julian.

Publication

Atlanta : High Museum of Art ; Seattle, WA : Distributed by University of Washington Press, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• High Museum of Art.
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
• Field Museum of Natural History.
• Skirball Cultural Center.
• Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Description

159 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 is the most significant exhibition of civil rights photographs presented in an art museum in more than twenty years. These images were taken by many photographers - photojournalists, artists, movement photographers, and amateurs alike - all of whom seem to have had a keen understanding of the significance of their subject. This publication presents a narrative of some of the key moments of the civil rights movement, including the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Birmingham hosings of 1963, and the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965. These are the unforgettable images that helped to change the nation, increasing the momentum of the nonviolent movement by dramatically raising awareness of injustice and the struggle for equality."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• United States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Pictorial works > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition, pictorial works.
• History.
• Catalogues d'exposition.
• Ausstellung.
• Seattle (WA, 2008)

Note

• Photographs from an exhibition held at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 7-Oct. 5, 2008 and the International Gallery, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2008-Mar. 9, 2009.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159).

Contents

Director's foreword / Michael E. Shapiro -- Preface and acknowledgments / Julian Cox -- Introduction / Charles Johnson -- Bearing witness: photography and the civil rights movement / Julian Cox -- Plates -- Afterword / John Lewis -- List of plates -- Selected bibliography.

ISBN

• 9781932543230
• 1932543236
• 9781932543216
• 193254321X

LCCN

2008008856

OCLC

• ocn213384805
• 213384805
• SCSB-1483255

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library