{"id":19336,"date":"2017-02-07T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=19336"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:07:23","slug":"images-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/images-civil-rights-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of the Civil Rights Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Images of the Civil Rights Movement<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A couple of summers ago, I traveled to Atlanta’s High Museum of Art to see the exhibit\u00a0Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights<\/em> Movement, 1956\u20131968<\/a>. I was spellbound\u00a0by this collection of images from this period in history and I learned more than I ever knew.<\/p>\n

I have previously included photographs of LIFE Magazine’s Charles Moore<\/a> in my visual literacy\u00a0workshops. A passage about him and his photos, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book,\u00a0The Race Beat<\/a>,\u00a0 led me to learn more. These stories and photos are powerful reminders\u00a0of the importance of photojournalism at this critical time in American history.<\/p>\n

Now, I’ve learned another exhibit, \u201cFor All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle\u00a0for Civil Rights,\u201d<\/a> is at the Center of International Photography in New York City and was\u00a0just reviewed in The New York Times<\/a>. The companion web site<\/a> is an online exhibition worth exploring.\u00a0 There is also an accompanying book<\/a> of the same name. (Don’t miss the K-12 educator’s resource link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

To see other books about civil rights photography go to this page<\/a> on my visual literacy web site.<\/p>\n

See also my web page from a recent presentation<\/a> at the SC Social Studies Educator’s conference.<\/p>\n

Frank Baker, media educator,\u00a0fbaker1346@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Related resources:
\nLesson Plan: Civil Rights Through Image & Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The man who captured SC’s civil rights history<\/a><\/p>\n

The role of the news media in the civil rights movement<\/a> (video)<\/p>\n

Rare civil rights images <\/a>from the LIFE magazine archives<\/span><\/p>\n

The Power of Imagery in Advancing Civil Rights <\/a><\/p>\n

What the still photo still does best<\/a> (New York Times)<\/p>\n

The Civil Right Movement From Behind The Lens<\/a><\/p>\n

Gallery of photographer Flip Schulke<\/a><\/p>\n

Greensboro Sit-in<\/a>: The Start of the Civil Rights Movement<\/p>\n

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four<\/a>
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\n<\/span><\/span>Teaching students about civil rights using print material and photographs<\/span> <\/span><\/a>
\n(The Social Studies July-August 2007)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\nThe Decisive Moment: The Civil Rights Photographs of\u00a0 Dr. Ernest Withers<\/a>\u00a0(curriculum)<\/span><\/p>\n

Eyes On The Prize (PBS): Classroom Activities<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

CivilRightsTeaching.org\u00a0 Activities and handouts<\/a><\/span>
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\nThe Life Magazine Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore 1958-1965<\/a> (Journalism History 25:4 Winter 1999-2000)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Images of the Civil Rights Movement A couple of summers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25182,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions\/25182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}