Contributed on May 07, 2007

By: Rick_28373

In October 1962, my parents filed a federal law suit against the State of Virginia to win admission for my oldest sister, Hazel Ruth Adams Hairston, into the Patrick Henry Community College Campus of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
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Co-organized by the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore...
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This stark poster by Emerson Graphics in San Francisco was printed shortly after the assassination...
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Civil rights activists often turned to "portable" images—buttons, decals, brochures, and other...
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As the civil rights movement emerged, constructive and self-assured images of African Americans...
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In the modern civil rights era, there is perhaps no more stylistically radical use of imagery and...
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