Feb 15, 2021 · Learn more about the Civil Rights Movement and artworks that illustrate the trials endured by Black Americans during their fight for equality.

Feb 15, 2022 · Together, let’s examine 10 artworks that defined the civil rights era. 1. David C. Driskell, Behold thy Son, 1956. Artist David C. Driskell relocated to the South at the end of the 1950s shortly after the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

Images created by Lyon, Fernandez, and many other artists played a pivotal role in shaping the public’s understanding of the civil rights movement and inspiring citizens to action. Today, photographers continue to pick up their cameras to highlight injustices.

Below are the artworks featured in Oh Freedom!, ordered by date of creation. The artworks are grouped into three periods in civil rights history.

Feb 12, 2014 · Throughout the 1960s, a decade marked by an ardent civil rights fight that swept the American nation, many artists found themselves on the side of a burgeoning protest movement. From assemblage artists to Minimalist masters to Pop Art figures, those working in a wide breadth of media turned to art as an act of political defiance.

Jan 24, 2023 · Let’s take a look together at 10 works of art that defined the civil rights era. Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972. Artist Bethier Saar has gained worldwide fame for her work, which uses recycled objects and creates images …

Jan 20, 2020 · In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, seven curators have chosen the artworks they believe best defines the Civil Rights era. Curators from across the country share the works that capture the ...

This collection contains art from the greater Civil Rights Movement from the 1950's-1970's. It also contains art from subsequent time periods that are connected in theme, topic, or concept to the greater Civil Rights Movement.

The High holds one of the country’s most significant collections of photographs documenting the civil rights movement with over three hundred works. These images were made by committed artists, activists, and journalists who risked injury, arrest, and even death to document this critical moment of change in our nation.

Feb 24, 2018 · In 2014, 50 years after the establishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, the Brooklyn Museum of Art hosted an exhibit called Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties.