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VA -- Richmond -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts -- Exhibit: Signs of Protest:

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Description of Pictures: Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era
January 11, 2014 – September 7, 2014
Signs and protests were inseparable in the 1960s. Like a visual bullhorn, they both amplified and unified the voices fighting injustice. This exhibition includes photographs that feature protest signs, as well as images of the larger culture of resistance surrounding them, with an emphasis on Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael.

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Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

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1. VMFASP_140817_001.JPG: Signs of Protest: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era "Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968 Signs and protests were inseparable in the 1960s, with words painted or printed large scale to produce maximum impact when photographed or filmed by the media. Like a visual bullhorn, they both amplified and unified the voices fighting injustice. This exhibition includes photographs of those signs and the individuals who carried them, as well as images of the larger culture of resistance during the turbulent decade. With an emphasis on civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael, Signs of Protest traces the evolution of protest from civil rights and black power to Vietnam War demonstrations and, in subsequent decades, rallies fighting South African aparthied. Many of the photographs on view here, including Gordon Parks, Bob Adelman, and James Karales, worked for magazines such as Life and Look, whose photo essays reached millions of American readers every week. They understood that the photographs they took had the capability to effect real change. Gordon Parks called his camera a weapon, an apt reference to the power of images in the fight for racial justice and equality.
2. VMFASP_140817_005.JPG: Gordon Parks Untitled, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 "I wasn't going in. I didn't want to take my niece through the back entrance. She smelled popcorn and wnated some. All I could think was where I could go to get her popcorn." -- Joanne Wilson, 2013
3. VMFASP_140817_011.JPG: Bob Adelman Demonstrator during the March on Washington DC, 1963 "I show with one eye on the lens, one eye on history, and my heart was with the civil rights movement." -- Bob Adelman
4. VMFASP_140817_017.JPG: Protest in Richmond On January 1, 1960, Dr. King spoke at an Emancipation Day rally in Richmond. Inspired by his example of nonviolent protest, a group of Virginia Union University students organized a sit-in at the segregated Woolworth's lunch counter on February 20. The restaurant responded by closing. Two days later, the students returned to downtown, this time entering the first-floor lunch counter at Thalhimers, as well as the exclusive Richmond Room restaurant on the store's fourth floor. When thirty-four of the students refused to leave, they were arrested and later dubbed "the Richmond 34." These initial protests led to nearly a year of picket lines that promoted boycotts of segregated stores with signs such as "Don't Shop Where You Are Arrested," ultimately resulting in the integration of Thalhimers and several other Richmond stores. Richard N. Anderson was both a University of Virginia-trained architect and lifelong photographer. He published his images under the byline DanFoto in Richmond's Times-Dispatch and News Leader. While few vintage prints of his photographs exist, Anderson gave his original negatives to the Valentine Richmond History Center. Reproduced here are digital scans that document and preserve these powerful events in our local history.
5. VMFASP_140817_021.JPG: Danny Lyon Danville, 1963, A Crowd Watches the Demonstrators Returning to the Steps of City Hall, 1963
6. VMFASP_140817_034.JPG: Beuford Smith Woman in Doorway, Harlem, 1965
7. VMFASP_140817_041.JPG: Gordon Parks White Police Officer Standing Between Two Black Protestors, 1963
8. VMFASP_140817_054.JPG: Louis Draper Untitled (Black Muslims), 1960s
9. VMFASP_140817_064.JPG: Louis Draper Malcolm X, Harlem, 1964
10. VMFASP_140817_070.JPG: Ernest C. Withers I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis Tennessee, March 28, 1968
11. VMFASP_140817_080.JPG: Louis Draper Untitled (Revolt Now), ca 1960s
12. VMFASP_140817_086.JPG: Louis Draper Untitled (Noisy Panthers Disrupt Trial), ca 1966-72
13. VMFASP_140817_094.JPG: Gordon Parks Stokely Carmichael, Watts, Los Angeles, CA, 1966
14. VMFASP_140817_101.JPG: James Karales Selma to Montgomery March, Alabama, 1965
15. VMFASP_140817_111.JPG: Leroy Henderson First Anti-Vietnam War Rally, Marchers on Madison Ave., April 15, 1967
16. VMFASP_140817_117.JPG: Diane Arbus Boy with a Straw Hat Waiting to March in a Pro-War Parade, New York City, 1967
17. VMFASP_140817_123.JPG: Garry Winogrand New York City, 1970, 1970
18. VMFASP_140817_140.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
19. VMFASP_140817_152.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
20. VMFASP_140817_155.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
21. VMFASP_140817_159.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
22. VMFASP_140817_162.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
23. VMFASP_140817_168.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
24. VMFASP_140817_175.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
25. VMFASP_140817_179.JPG: Benedict J. Fernandez Countdown to Eternity, 1967-68
26. VMFASP_140817_189.JPG: Ian Berry South Africa, Supporters Climb to Every Vantage Point, 1994
27. VMFASP_140817_195.JPG: Alf Kumalo A Protest March after the Uitenhage Massacre of 21st March, 1985, 1985
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