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Description of Pictures: “1968: Civil Rights at 50”
On display through Jan. 2, 2019 | Level 4
“1968: Civil Rights at 50” explores the tumultuous events that shaped the civil rights movement in 1968, when movement leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, unleashing anger and anguish across the country. Historic images and print news artifacts highlight the landmark events of the year, including the Orangeburg massacre, when three unarmed black teenagers were killed by police during protests at South Carolina State College; the sanitation workers strike in Memphis; and the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C., designed to draw attention to poverty and economic inequality. The exhibit also traces the dramatic social and political upheavals that formed the backdrop to these events, from anti–Vietnam War protests to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and a defiant protest for human rights at the Mexico City Olympics. The deaths of King and Kennedy, two giants of civil rights and social change, left the nation reeling. King’s legacy of nonviolence was challenged by the rising militancy of Black Power — a movement that captured the confrontational spirit of the turbulent year. “1968: Civil Rights at 50” examines the relationship between the First Amendment and the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
The exhibit includes:
* An original Newseum-produced film, “Justice for All,” about the protests by track and field medal winners John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympics that resonate with today’s NFL protests. The film features interviews with NFL player Michael Bennett, Harry Edwards, co-founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, author and sports historian Dave Zirin and USA TODAY columnist Christine Brennan.
* Newspapers and magazines from the Newseum’s collection of 40,000 print news artifacts, including Jet magazine’s reporting on the Orangeburg massacre and the Poor People’s Campaign; the New Left Notes underground newspaper; a Life magazine ...More...

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1. NEWR50_180113_012.JPG: 1968 It was a year of turmoil in the United States and around the world. A shocking series of attacks in Vietnam cast new doubts about the war. A demoralized President Lyndon B. Johnson decided against seeking re-election. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was struck down by an assassin's bullet. As the nation mourned, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was killed while campaigning for president. Protesters marched for peace and for equal rights for African Americans and women. Soviet tanks crushed a freedom movement in Czechoslovakia. At the end, a glorious image from U.S. astronauts in space offered hope for a divided planet.
2. NEWR50_180113_015.JPG: The Tet Offensive
3. NEWR50_180113_018.JPG: Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
4. NEWR50_180113_020.JPG: Johnson Won't Run Again
5. NEWR50_180113_024.JPG: King Opposes Vietnam War Democratic Convention Protest
6. NEWR50_180113_027.JPG: Democratic Convention Protest Protesting Miss America
7. NEWR50_180113_028.JPG: Protesting Miss America
8. NEWR50_180113_031.JPG: Protest at the Olympics
9. NEWR50_180113_033.JPG: Astronaut's View of Earth
10. NEWR50_180113_035.JPG: 1968 Civil Rights at 50 Explore the explosive events of 1968 in "Civil Rights at 50: 1968" In the gallery just past the 9/11 Gallery on Level 4.
11. NEWR50_180113_042.JPG: "I've been to the mountaintop... And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land." -- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 Civil Rights at 50 1968 was a year of turmoil around the globe. In Czechoslovakia, Soviet tanks crushed Prague Spring, the communist country's bold move toward democracy. In France, massive student protests sparked strikes that paralyzed the country. In the United States, rising casualties in Vietnam drained Americans' support for the war. Protests against the war and injustices against black Americans, women and farm workers marked a tumultuous year. As cries for peace and equality grew louder, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support a strike by black sanitation workers. There, King was assassinated by a white racist, unleashing a fury of deadly riots in more than 120 U.S. cities. Two months later, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy -- a champion on the poor and the powerless -- was shot to death while campaigning for president in Los Angeles. The deaths of two giants of civil rights and social change left the nation reeling. King's legacy of nonviolence was challenged by the rising militancy of Black Power -- a movement that captured the confrontational spirit of a turbulent 1968.
12. NEWR50_180113_046.JPG: Protest at the Olympics Racial politics took the international stage in Mexico City in October when Olympic track medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their black-gloved fists in a protest for human rights on the winners' podium as the US national anthem played. Both sprinters stood shoeless in black socks to symbolize poverty. Carlos wore a necklace with beads that represented lynching victims. Smith and Carlos's protest against racial injustice was one of the most political acts in sports history. The powerful photo of their defiant act made headlines around the world. Smith and Carlos received death threats and were suspended from the U.S. Olympic team. The protest, said Smith, "was a cry for freedom and for human rights. We had to be seen because we couldn't be heard."
13. NEWR50_180113_054.JPG: The Orangeburg Massacre On a bitterly cold February night in rural Orangeburg, SC, a student protest over a whites-only bowling alley ended with three black teenagers shot dead by police. Students from the city's two black colleges had marched peacefully for several days at All Star Bowling Lanes -- segregated in spite of federal civil rights laws. But when state police arrived, violence erupted. On Feb. 8, Gov. Robert E. McNair ordered the troopers to the South Carolina State College campus, where students rallied at a bonfire. Protesters threw objects. A banister rail struck a policeman. Without warning, nine white highway patrolmen fired into the crowd of 200 students, killing three -- one a 17-year-old high school student -- and injuring 27 others.
14. NEWR50_180113_060.JPG: Duerwood Middleton is led from the church Feb. 12, 1968, after the funeral for his brother Delano, who was slain by police during protests at South Carolina State College.
15. NEWR50_180113_061.JPG: Police armed with clubs surround 17-yaer-old Delano Middleton, one of three students shot and killed by police during the Orangeburg, SC protests.
16. NEWR50_180113_065.JPG: This Feb. 26, 1968, issue of New Left News, the underground newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society, calls the deaths of three students in Orangeburg, SC "cold-blooded murder."
17. NEWR50_180113_068.JPG: Reporters Uncover Injustice
18. NEWR50_180113_069.JPG: King Loses Support for Denouncing War
19. NEWR50_180113_083.JPG: A Report On Race: 'Separate and Unequal'
20. NEWR50_180113_087.JPG: Racial Unrest in 1967 Racial unrest struck 128 cities in 1967, above,. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders -- known as the Kerner Commission -- explored the causes of the violence.
21. NEWR50_180113_124.JPG: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Memphis's sanitation workers, who were predominantly African Americans, were poorly paid and ill-treated. For years, they complained about dangerously decrepit equipment and squalid working conditions. The city refused to recognized their union. On Feb. 1, 1968, two workers seeking shelter in the back of a garbage truck from a bad storm were crushed to death when the compactor's safety switch malfunctioned. Their gruesome deaths galvanized more than 1,000 sanitation workers to go on strike. As Mayor Henry Loeb scrambled to hire replacement workers, 10,000 tons of trash piled up on the streets of Memphis.
22. NEWR50_180113_127.JPG: The National Guard stands at alert as more than 5,000 protesters carrying signs that said "I Am a Man" march down a blocked-off Beale Street in Memphis on March 29, 1968.
23. NEWR50_180113_130.JPG: Trash piles up in downtown Memphis during the two-month sanitation workers' strike in 1968.
24. NEWR50_180113_133.JPG: A protester walks past rolling tanks in Memphis during a demonstration by striking sanitation workers.
25. NEWR50_180113_135.JPG: King Blamed for Violence Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis in March to support the sanitation workers' strike at the request of his friend and fellow civil rights activist Rev. James Lawson. More than 5,000 protesters, many of them carrying "I Am a Man" signs, marched with King. The signs were inspired by Lawson's speech: "At the heart of racism is the idea that a man is not a man." But looting and violence broke out. Police responded with tear gas and shotguns, killing a 16-year-old demonstrator. Protesters sought refuge at Clayborn Temple but police released tear gas inside the sanctuary and beat marchers. Shaken by the violence, King retreated to Atlanta, vowing to return. Press coverage of the march reflected the city's racial divide. Blaming King for the violence and ridiculing his quick exit from the city, the mainstream Commercial Appeal's editorial page dubbed the civil rights leader "Chicken a la King." The black-owned Tri-State Defender newspaper focused on police brutality toward the black protesters.
26. NEWR50_180113_137.JPG: The April 1, 1968, edition of The New York School Weekly covers the violence that erupted during a march by sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. A teenage protester was killed by police.
27. NEWR50_180113_139.JPG: King's Final Speech and Death The violence in Memphis took a heavy toll on Martin Luther King Jr. But he flew to the city April 3 and gave an impromptu sermon that night at a packed Mason Temple. Addressing a crowd that included hundreds of striking sanitation workers, King recalled an attempt on his life 10 years earlier in Harlem and recent threats he had received in Memphis. "It really doesn't matter with me now," King preached to the electrified crowd, "because I've been to the mountaintop... And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land." On April 4, just after 6pm, King and his aides stood on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel preparing to leave for a home-cooked meal at a local minister's house. A sniper's bullet struck King. He was pronounced dead at the hospital an hour later. After a two-month manhunt, avowed racist James Earl Ray was arrested in London for King's assassination.
28. NEWR50_180113_146.JPG: A day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Sunday Herald Examiner reported on President Lyndon B. Johnson's please for calm.
29. NEWR50_180113_150.JPG: This May 1968 issue of Ebony magazine features the title of the last speech, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the night before his assassination.
30. NEWR50_180113_152.JPG: The Guardian, a radical newsweekly published in New York in the 1960s, summarized four days of rioting in 72 US cities after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death in this April 13, 1968, issue.
31. NEWR50_180113_157.JPG: Coretta King Takes a Stand
32. NEWR50_180113_162.JPG: Mourners outside Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church brave heavy rainfall on April 8, 1968, as Martin Luther King Jr.'s body is taken inside.
33. NEWR50_180113_169.JPG: When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Life magazine switched during its press run from a cover about President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision not to seek a second full term as president, left, to one focusing on King, at right.
34. NEWR50_180113_176.JPG: King's Death Sparks Anguish, Rioting
35. NEWR50_180113_177.JPG: Illinois police and members of the National Guard detain a suspect on a Chicago street after riots in the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.s' assassination.
36. NEWR50_180113_188.JPG: RFK Champions Civil Rights
37. NEWR50_180113_191.JPG: These are campaign buttons for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential bid. "Kennedy's white but he's alright" referred to his popularity among black voters as a champion of civil rights. The Kennedy Current was a publication of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. This May 23, 1968, issue highlights a campaign visit in Oregon.
38. NEWR50_180113_197.JPG: Kennedy Calms a Crowd
39. NEWR50_180113_202.JPG: Sepia, a photo magazine about African American life, explored the impact of Robert F. Kennedy's death in this August 1968 issue.
40. NEWR50_180113_205.JPG: The Los Angeles Herald Examiner published extra copies of its June 6, 1968, edition that reported Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in that city.
41. NEWR50_180113_208.JPG: The Poor People's Campaign
42. NEWR50_180113_226.JPG: Historic Elections
43. NEWR50_180113_229.JPG: Washington Star cartoonist Gib Crockett depicted the choices voters had in the 1968 presidential election, from left, Democratic Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon and Independent George Wallace. Nixon won.
44. NEWR50_180113_232.JPG: Richard M. Nixon's election victory dominates this Nov. 7, 1968, Washington Post front page.
45. NEWR50_180113_236.JPG: These 1968 presidential campaign buttons supported the candidacy of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew. The Silent Majority referred to conservative voters who supported Richard Nixon's policies.
46. NEWR50_180113_246.JPG: Protest at the Olympics
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Description of Subject Matter: Make Some Noise
By Dinah Douglas, assistant Web writer

WASHINGTON — The Newseum opened two new exhibits Aug. 2 on the U.S. civil rights movement that highlighted the contributions and struggles of students.
With the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington approaching on Aug. 28, the timely exhibits underscore how organizers in the movement used the media to garner public support.
"Make Some Noise: Students and the Civil Rights Movement" takes visitors through a timeline of events that defined the movement and its student organizers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). ....
Adjacent to "Make Some Noise," the "Civil Rights at 50" exhibit of newspaper front pages and magazine covers, captures the turbulence of the 1963 through events such as the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Ala., and the assassination in Mississippi of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The display shows media coverage as it really happened, including press biases and prejudices. "Civil Rights at 50" will be updated in 2014 and 2015.
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2018 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences in Greenville, NC, Newport News, VA, and my farewell event with them in Chicago, IL (via sites in Louisville, KY, St. Louis, MO, and Toledo, OH), three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles). Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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