"Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968"

July 18, 2010 by cultureID

During the span of twelve years, a series of events, later hailed as the Civil Rights Movement, would forever change the social and political course of America. The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents "Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968," an exhibitions that chronicling these pivotal moments in the nation’s history. Featuring 150 vintage photographs, Road to Freedom is the most comprehensive collection of photographic prints and related artifacts ever devoted to the subject and was organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.
Paired with "After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy."
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