BGuthrie Photos: DC -- NMAAHC -- Exhibit: (C1) A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. AACHAN_161011_01.JPG: The Ford Foundation Gallery A Changing America 1968 and Beyond What are we to make of the last 50 years of progress and paradox? This exhibition examines the strategies Americans have used to wrestle with racial discrimination, cultural exclusion, and economic inequality since 1968 and explores the evolving status of the African American community. Just as the Civil Rights and Black Power movements pursued goals of justice and equality in the 20th century, Americans must decide how to advance these goals into the 21st century. "Documenting the post-soul era is not about chronicling the straight line of a social movement, but collecting disparate fragments that form not a linear story, but a collage." -- Nelson George, 2004
2. AACHAN_161011_14.JPG: Global Impact What does it mean to be black in America today? How does racial identification intersect with other forms of belonging? Does race still matter? African Americans are leading and shaping global conversations that will define this century. With the census finding each generation of Americans more multiracial than the last, and immigration bringing greater ethnic diversity to black populations in the United States, notions of identity and community will continue to change. As the experience of being black in America evolves, so will the ways in which a more diverse black America influences global history and culture. "If the problem of the twentieth century was, in WEB DuBois's famous words, "the problem of the color line," then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification." -- Naomi Murakawa
3. AACHAN_161012_01.JPG: The Ford Foundation Gallery A Changing America 1968 and Beyond What are we to make of the last 50 years of progress and paradox? This exhibition examines the strategies Americans have used to wrestle with racial discrimination, cultural exclusion, and economic inequality since 1968 and explores the evolving status of the African American community. Just as the Civil Rights and Black Power movements pursued goals of justice and equality in the 20th century, Americans must decide how to advance these goals into the 21st century. "Documenting the post-soul era is not about chronicling the straight line of a social movement, but collecting disparate fragments that form not a linear story, but a collage." -- Nelson George, 2004
4. AACHAN_161015_003.JPG: A Changing America 1968 and Beyond
5. AACHAN_161015_005.JPG: The Foundations of Black Power
6. AACHAN_161015_017.JPG: The Power of Malcolm X: Malcolm X's expression of black pride and self-determination continued to resonate with and engage many African Americans long after his death in February 1965. For example, listening to recordings of his speeches inspired African American soldiers to organize GIs United Against the War in Vietnam in 1969.
7. AACHAN_161015_023.JPG: SNCC Supports Black Power: SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, created in 1960, destroyed "the psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage," according to its chairman, Julian Bond.
8. AACHAN_161015_032.JPG: Remembering Malcolm X
9. AACHAN_161015_039.JPG: Black Power Around the World
10. AACHAN_161015_040.JPG: Black Power
11. AACHAN_161015_049.JPG: "Free All Political Prisoners!" Critics vilified Black Power organizations as separate groups or street gangs. These critics ignored the movement's political activism, cultural innovations, and social programs. Of nearly 300 authorized FBI operations against black nationalist groups, more than 230 targeted the Black Panthers. This forced the Panthers and other organizations to spend time, money, and effort toward legal defense rather than social programs.
12. AACHAN_161015_060.JPG: The War on Black Power
13. AACHAN_161015_062.JPG: Organizing a Revolutionary Party
14. AACHAN_161015_072.JPG: Serving Their Country
15. AACHAN_161015_075.JPG: Black Liberation & the Vietnam War
16. AACHAN_161015_077.JPG: The Black Panther Party
17. AACHAN_161015_081.JPG: The Nation of Islam as a Cultural Force
18. AACHAN_161015_089.JPG: The Aftermath of King's Assassination
19. AACHAN_161015_094.JPG: The Meaning of King's Death
20. AACHAN_161015_101.JPG: Religion & Black Power
21. AACHAN_161015_102.JPG: The Nation of Islam
22. AACHAN_161015_106.JPG: A Model of Self-Defense: This uniform was worn by a member of the Fruit of Islam (FOI), the Nation's formidable self-defense security force. The FOI was the embodiment of black pride, self-determination, and black nationalism. The group had a reputation for defusing conflict in black neighborhoods as well as preventing attacks on Nation members.
23. AACHAN_161015_113.JPG: Popular Culture
24. AACHAN_161015_118.JPG: At the Movies
25. AACHAN_161015_122.JPG: Film & Television
26. AACHAN_161015_124.JPG: Black is Beautiful
27. AACHAN_161015_127.JPG: The Congressional Black Caucus
28. AACHAN_161015_131.JPG: The National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana, 1972
29. AACHAN_161015_133.JPG: Black Pride on the Battlefield
30. AACHAN_161015_136.JPG: Opposing War & Imperialism
31. AACHAN_161015_144.JPG: Black Feminism
32. AACHAN_161015_158.JPG: Race & Gender
33. AACHAN_161015_161.JPG: Race & Gender
34. AACHAN_161015_162.JPG: Mourning the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
35. AACHAN_161015_164.JPG: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
36. AACHAN_161015_166.JPG: King's Funeral Remembered: King's funeral in Atlanta drew leaders from across the world. Tens of thousands attended memorial services around the country.
37. AACHAN_161015_175.JPG: The Legacy of Resurrection City
38. AACHAN_161015_178.JPG: Black & White on Television
39. AACHAN_161015_183.JPG: The Movement Marches On
40. AACHAN_161015_188.JPG: The Black Museum Movement
41. AACHAN_161015_191.JPG: The Flewellen Collection: Icabod Flewellen began assembling historical materials in the 1930s and established his museum in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953, making him a true pioneer.
42. AACHAN_161015_197.JPG: Ceramic Doll and Marbles from Brooklyn's Historic Free Black Community
43. AACHAN_161015_207.JPG: A Controversial Proposal: In the early 1990s an effort to create a national museum of African American history in the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building failed after receiving mixed responses.
44. AACHAN_161015_214.JPG: The Black Studies Movement
45. AACHAN_161015_218.JPG: The Attica Prison Uprising
46. AACHAN_161015_225.JPG: The Movement Inspires Others
47. AACHAN_161015_228.JPG: Decades of Parade and Promise
48. AACHAN_161015_239.JPG: The Oprah Winfrey Show
49. AACHAN_161015_241.JPG: The Oprah Effect
50. AACHAN_161015_250.JPG: Shifting Landscapes: Cities & Suburbs
51. AACHAN_161015_252.JPG: Entrance Facade, 25 Nesbitt Street, Baxter Terrace: "Baxter Terrace Housing project was more than the name; it was a home, a community of families that lived together, loved together, mourned together, broke bread together, and motivated each other." -- Darryl Murphy-Jenkins, 2009
52. AACHAN_161015_255.JPG: Living in the City
53. AACHAN_161015_260.JPG: Cities in Crisis
54. AACHAN_161015_265.JPG: Closing Factories, Losing Jobs
55. AACHAN_161015_269.JPG: The Results of Poverty
56. AACHAN_161015_270.JPG: The Urban Housing Crisis
57. AACHAN_161015_282.JPG: The Urban Promise
58. AACHAN_161015_283.JPG: Shifting Landscapes: Cities & Suburbs
59. AACHAN_161015_288.JPG: A Changing Populace
60. AACHAN_161015_291.JPG: Move to the South
61. AACHAN_161015_294.JPG: Coming to the USA
62. AACHAN_161015_296.JPG: Afro-Latinos
63. AACHAN_161015_299.JPG: Subdivisions and Planned Communities
64. AACHAN_161015_302.JPG: Class, Community, Lifestyle
65. AACHAN_161015_303.JPG: Suburban Dreams
66. AACHAN_161015_306.JPG: How to Get Along: Congress passed the Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibiting racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. The act put an end to legalized discrimination but could not wipe out entrenched segregation and racial division. Could a handbook help whites interact positively with their new black neighbors? Gift of the Family of Lonnie Bunch
67. AACHAN_161015_316.JPG: Mr. Muse's Den
68. AACHAN_161015_322.JPG: 1970s
69. AACHAN_161015_323.JPG: Sly Stone's Keyboard
70. AACHAN_161015_333.JPG: 1980s
71. AACHAN_161015_353.JPG: Boom box from Spike Lee's 1989 "Do the Right Thing" film
72. AACHAN_161015_358.JPG: 1990s
73. AACHAN_161015_363.JPG: Millions March: Initiated by Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam and supported by a variety of organizations, the Million Man March brought black men to Washington DC on October 16, 1995. In 1997, the Million Women March gathered black women in Philadelphia around issues of sisterhood and family unity.
74. AACHAN_161015_371.JPG: Anita Hill: In 1991, Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment. This event transformed public awareness and legal treatment of sexual harassment. Outraged by Hill's treatment by the all-white, all-male Senate committee, women's groups organized campaigns to elect more women to public office.
75. AACHAN_161015_374.JPG: The Olympic Torch: Carl Lewis carried this torch at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
76. AACHAN_161015_384.JPG: "Mandela for President!", 1994 Nelson Mandela, who admired Joe Louis, Rosa Parks, and Marvin Gaye, served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
77. AACHAN_161015_389.JPG: Public Enemy Banner, ca 1992
78. AACHAN_161015_391.JPG: Reporting Live from the Hip-Hop Generation
79. AACHAN_161015_395.JPG: 2000s
80. AACHAN_161015_402.JPG: Black Lives Matter, 2015: Trayvon Martin's death gave rise to a national movement that gained momentum as additional black men and women were killed by police.
81. AACHAN_161015_409.JPG: Black Professor, White Officer, 2009: Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. had been trying to unjam his front door when a neighbor called the police. Gates was arrested and placed in these handcuffs for breaking and entering into his own residence. This incident gave the issue of "racial profiling" a new face.
82. AACHAN_161015_412.JPG: Searching Door-to-Door for Katrina Survivors: With 80 percent of the city flooded, rescue crews went door-to-door in New Orleans looking for survivors among the 60,000 stranded residents. They marked the door or wall of each searched building with the date, identity of the search crew, areas of the building inspected, and number of casualties -- in this case, none.
83. AACHAN_161015_452.JPG: First Lady Michelle Obama's Dress
84. AACHAN_161015_456.JPG: "Our Highest Ideals" President Obama remarks for 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
85. AACHAN_161015_462.JPG: Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America
86. AACHAN_161015_474.JPG: Running for Office
87. AACHAN_161015_478.JPG: Black Electoral Politics
88. AACHAN_161015_491.JPG: The People's Inaugural Project, 2009
89. AACHAN_161015_497.JPG: The Poor People's Campaign
90. AACHAN_161015_506.JPG: Life in Resurrection City
91. AACHAN_161015_508.JPG: The Legacy of Resurrection City
92. AACHAN_161015_510.JPG: Getting Ahead
93. AACHAN_161015_512.JPG: Keeping the Faith
94. AACHAN_161015_514.JPG: Vietnam Tour Jacket
95. AACHAN_161015_521.JPG: The Foundations of Black Power
96. AACHAN_161015_528.JPG: A Fitting Memorial
97. AACHAN_161015_537.JPG: Black is Beautiful
98. AACHAN_161019_21.JPG: Black Professor, White Officer, 2009 Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. had been trying to unjam his front door when a neighbor called the police. Gates was arrested and placed in these handcuffs for breaking and entering into his own residence. This incident gave the issue of "racial profiling" a new face.
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Description of Subject Matter: A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely
This exhibition illustrates the impact of African Americans on life in the United States—social, economic, political, and cultural—from the death of Martin Luther King Jr. to the second election of President Barack Obama. Subjects include the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop, the Black Panthers, the rise of the black middle class and, more recently, the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This exhibition encompasses several sections focusing on the Black Power era of the 1960s and ’70s, Black Studies at universities, racial dynamics in cities and suburbs, and the changing role of the black middle class. The year 1968 is seen as a turning point in the modern struggle for freedom and equality with artifacts such as painted plywood panels from Resurrection City, a “Huey Newton, Minister of Defense” poster, and handmade banners from the 2008 presidential election.
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2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Seven relatively short trips this year: two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City), my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California), a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral, two additional trips to New York City, and a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing. Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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