What Was the Civil Rights Movement and When Did It Occur?
The police efforts quickly turned violent, and the images captured of the fallout became iconic.
He also significantly increased the contrast, heightening the jarring nature of the subject itself.
Signs carried by many marchers, during the March on Washington, 1963 (Photo:The Library of Congressvia Wikimedia Commons)
The artist entitled this abstract workApril 4the day whenMartin Luther King Jr.was assassinated in 1968.
Gilliam lived in Washington D.C., where riots broke out after the news of Kings assassination.
This artist collective was known asAfriCOBRA(the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists).
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public domain])
The 1920s .
These practices were especially prevalent in the South.
Artists were asked to respond to the question, What does independence mean to you?
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. This was a few months after her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo:Associated Press[Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons)
In my print, migrants are represented exercising that freedom.
Hopefully, it is always for the better.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Photo:Yoichi Okamoto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool, during the 1963 March on Washington. (Photo:Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
