Skirball Cultural Center (Venue Partner)
2701 N Sepulveda Blvd.
310.440.4500
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Bob Adelman American, b. 1930 Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, 1963 Gelatin silver print High Museum of Art, Atlanta Purchase with funds from Dr. Henrie M. Treadwell, 2007.172 © Bob Adelman
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Nov 19, 2009 – Mar 7, 2010
Tuesdays–Fridays (noon–5pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10am–5pm)
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$10
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Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than 160 images that helped change the nation. Taken by professional and amateur photojournalists, social activists, and anonymous witnesses, the compelling photographs exposed injustice prevalent in America at the time, promoted solidarity among citizens, and dramatically increased the momentum of the struggle for equal rights.
The indelible images track historical turning points that occurred in the twelve-year span between the 1956 trial that followed Rosa Parks' famed act of resistance aboard a Montgomery, Alabama bus and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Complementing the photographs are related archival objects and documents, which help to illuminate the hope and courage of the men and women who campaigned peacefully for social change.
At the Skirball, the acclaimed traveling exhibition has been enhanced to include a newly developed section on Los Angeles civil rights history — illustrating local events such as the picketing of the Kress Store in Pasadena in 1960 and the Watts Riots of 1965 — and a documentary on the role of Jewish Americans in the movement.
