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Exhibit Displays Images Of The Quest For Equality

Ernest C. Withers
Sanitation Workers Assemble in Front of Clayborn Temple for a Solidarity March, Memphis, Tennessee,
March 28, 1968
© Ernest C. Withers, Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

A new exhibition at the International Center of Photography will offer an innovative view of the Civil Rights

Movement and the catalytic social role played by changing portrayals of African Americans in the 1950s

and ‘60s. Through a rich juxtaposition of visual images—including photographs, television and film clips,

magazines, newspapers, books, pamphlets and posters—the exhibition shows how strategic interventions

in these mediums of visual culture helped to transform prevailing attitudes toward race in America. The

exhibition, organized by guest curator Maurice Berger, is titled For All the World to See: Visual Culture and

the Struggle for Civil Rights, and will be on view from May 21 to September 12, 2010.

The exhibition demonstrates the extent to which the rise of the modern civil rights movement paralleled the

birth of television and the popularity of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media, and traces

the gradual introduction of African American faces into those contexts. These images were ever-present and

diverse: the startling footage of southern white aggression and black suffering that appeared night after night

on television news programs; the photographs of achievers and martyrs in black periodicals, which roused

pride or activism in the African American community; the humble snapshot, no less powerful in its ability to

edify and motivate.

Efforts to combat racism and segregation were waged not only with fiery speeches and nonviolent protests

but also, significantly, with pictures, forever changing the way political movements fought for visibility and

recognition. Nonetheless, the role of visual media in combating racism is rarely included in standard histories

of the movement. For All the World to See will include approximately 230 objects and television and film

clips, ranging from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. The exhibition is divided into five sections: It Keeps on

Rollin’ Along: The Status Quo looks at the world of visual culture into which the modern civil rights movement

was born and the power of these images to perpetuate stereotypes, prejudice, and complacency. The

Culture of Positive Images investigates the role of images in fostering a sense of black pride and

accomplishment as well as improving the habitually negative view of African Americans in the culture at

large. “Let the World See What I’ve Seen”: Evidence and Persuasion considers the use of pictures to report,

On view from

May 21

through

September 12, 2010

Exhibition highlights include: materials relating to the Emmett Till case, such as a rare pamphlet by the photographer

Ernest C. Withers recounting the murder and its aftermath; historic footage of Jackie Robinson’s first game in the

major leagues and other sports memorabilia; an examination of the Negro pictorial magazine, from the widely-read

(Ebony, Jet, and Tan) to the short-lived (Hue, Say, and Sepia); photographs documenting the civil rights movement and

its leaders by Roy DeCarava, Elliot Erwitt, Benedict Fernandez, Joseph Louw, Francis Miller, Gordon Parks, Robert

Sengstack, Moneta Sleet, Carl Van Vechten, and Dan Weiner; clips from groundbreaking television documentaries,

most not seen in decades, such as The Weapons of Gordon Parks, Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire, and Take This

Hammer; and excerpts from nationally broadcast (The Beulah Show, East Side, West Side, All in the Family, and The

Ed Sullivan Show) and local African American TV programs (Soul, Say Brother, and Colored People’s Time). For All

the World to See looks at images from a range of cultural outlets and formats, tracking the ways they represented

race in order to alter beliefs and attitudes.

Exhibition Organization/Tour

For All The World To See was co-organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland,

Baltimore County and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.

Following its debut at the International Center of Photography, the exhibition will travel to the Smithsonian National

Museum of African American History and Culture (June to October 2011, tentative); and the Center for Art, Design,

and Visual Culture, UMBC (September 2012 to January 2013).

Publication

The exhibition is accompanied by the fully illustrated book For All the Would to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle

for Civil Rights, by Maurice Berger with a foreword by Thulani Davis (Yale University Press, 2010). Additionally, an

online version of the exhibition will launch in May 2010 (www.foralltheworldtosee.org).

Curator Biography

Maurice Berger is senior research scholar at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland,

Baltimore County. He is the author of White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)—

which was named as a finalist for the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard

University—and ten other books. Berger has organized numerous exhibitions, including retrospectives of the artists

Adrian Piper (1999) and Fred Wilson (2001), and White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2003).

Funding

This project has been funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Trellis Fund, James A.

Macdonald Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, St. Paul Travelers Corporation, Communities Foundation

of Texas, and Maryland State Arts Council. Additional support has come from CBS News Archives, Ed Sullivan/SOFA

Entertainment, Sullmark Corporation, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, and public funds from the New York City

Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

For All the World to See was designated a “We the People” project by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The goal of the “We the People” initiative is to “encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding

of American history and culture through the support of projects that explore significant events and themes in our

nation’s history and culture and that advance knowledge of the principles that define America.”

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