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The US Civil Rights struggles have produced some of the most searing images in the 20th century’s struggle for human dignity and racial equality. These images were extremely powerful in their day, and they still hold power today, serving as a testament to our ability to affect change, and a reminder of our responsibility to protect human rights always and everywhere.
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Revolutionary Anger And The Struggle For Human Equality
Daniel Drache, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director David Clifton, Research Associate Marc Froese, Research Associate
A Digital Report From The Counter-Publics Working Group
Please Send Comments To drache@yorku.caOctober 2004
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Fight The Power
US Civil Rights Struggles Have Produced Some Of The Most Searing Images In The 20th Century’s Struggle For Human Dignity
And Racial Equality
Systemic Racism
Eye-cons Rise Above Photojournalism With Their Timeless Message Of Anger,
Defiance And Justice. Even Decades Later The Viewer Is Caught Up In This
Epic Struggle.
The US Civil Rights Movement Was Impatient, Audacious, Innovative And Militant. It Was A Mass Movement Of Radical Black And White Activists Who Connected The Poor With The Affluent.
Forced Desegregation In Little Rock
Military Occupation Of “Ole Miss”
Riding For Freedom In The Summer Of 1961
The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike For Basic Economic Justice, A Turning Point For American
Civil Rights – February 1968
Reality TV: Media, Violence And Civil Rights
Civil Rights Activists Aggressively Exploited The Power Of Iconic Images In The Battle For Public Opinion. Photos Of Young People Facing Down Attack Dogs And Fire Hoses Galvanized Ordinary Americans.
Power To The People March On Washington August 28th , 1963
Between 1964 – 1967, 43 Die In Race Riots In Detroit, 34 In Watts, 23 In Newark. Thousands Injured In Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Baltimore,
Philadelphia And Harlem. 52 Die In The L.A. Riots Of 1992.
Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X Attain
Heroic Stature At Home And Abroad
Two Radical Visions: Malcolm X and Martin
Luther King Jr. At The Height Of Their Powers
Militancy And Confrontation: The Nation of Islam and The Black Panther Party
“The Great Society” Links Race And Poverty In The Struggle For Substantive Equality In The U.S.
LBJ Declares “Unconditional War On Poverty In America”.
The Signing Of The Civil Rights Act July 2, 1964
Malcolm X Murdered At Age 40
Martin Luther King Jr.Murdered At Age 39
World Anger Refocused on ‘The Banality Of Evil’ And The Horror Of Human Rights
Abuses as a Global Phenomenon
The Sharpeville And Mai Lai Massacres In Vietnam And South Africa Redefine Civil
Rights As An Inescapable Global Responsibility
March 21, 196069 Killed
March 16, 1968Over 300 Killed
The ANC’s Struggle Against Apartheid Links Racial Equality And Human Rights
The Scourge Of Terrorism
The Bush Revolution: Regime Change, Pre-emptive Strikes, Unilateralism
Winning At Any Cost: Shocking Human Rights Abuses At Abu Ghraib
From Rwanda To Darfur: The Crime Of Global Indifference
International Human Rights: Our Responsibility To Protect? Always.
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