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Civil rights and the promise of equality : photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Title
Civil rights and the promise of equality : photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture / Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture ; Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts ; foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution ; London : in association with D Giles Limited, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Bunch, Lonnie G., III
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
  • Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts.
  • Smithsonian Institution.
Description
80 pages : illustrations; 18 cm.
Summary
Commemorates the ongoing fight to fulfil the promise of freedom and equality for all American citizens, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the present. It features powerful images from, for example, Leonard Freed's series, Black in White America, Ernest C. Withers's photographs of the Sanitation Workers' Solidarity March in Nashville, and Charles Moore's documentation of police brutality during the 1963 Birmingham Childrens' Crusade.
Series Statement
Double exposure ; 2nd volume
Uniform Title
Double exposure (Series) (National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)) ; 2nd v.
Subject
Genre/Form
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • History
  • Pictorial works
  • Illustrated works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Foreword / Lonnie G. Bunch III -- Portrait of a revolution / John Lewis -- Reflections for a new generation / Bryan Stevenson -- Photographs.
ISBN
  • 9781907804472
  • 1907804471
LCCN
2016429782
OCLC
  • ocn892459880
  • 892459880
  • SCSB-1821472
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library