Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Pictorial works

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