Called “I Am A Man,” the exhibit gets it name from the iconic photographs of striking Memphis sanitation workers who carried signs with that phrase.
Those photographs are included, as well as others of segregated lunch counters, Ku Klux Klan gatherings, the Selma Montgomery March in Alabama and Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral.Southern folklorist, author and curator William Ferris and his research team compiled photographs taken by activists or local news photographers during the civil rights movement.
“The decade was a pivotal moment that both marks change, and also reminds us how far we have to go,” the. The photographs still resonate today “as future generations continue to fight for justice for all humankind.”
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