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U.S. Civil Rights Movement — Collection Theme

Curated by University Learning Programs

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Objects in UMMA’s collection related to the theme of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

John Lewis in Nashville
1963
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
The University of Mississippi campus when James Meredith tried to register as the first black student there
1962
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps
1963
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard
1964
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
Dr. Martin Luther King just before he speaks at Birmingham
1963
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
A street in Albany
1962
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
An angry crowd forms in Cambridge
1964
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
A house in the Delta
1963
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
New Hope
1966
Corita
screenprint on paper
John Lewis in Cairo, from “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement”
1962; printed 2010
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
Martin Luther King
1968
Ben Shahn
wood engraving on paper
Birmingham Race Riot
1964
Andy Warhol; Sirocco Screenprinters
screenprint on paper
M.L.K. Jr.
1968
Chaim Gross
lithograph on moderately textured cream BFK Rives wove paper
Mississippi, from “The Confederacy”
1971
Robert Indiana
color screenprint on paper
Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By
1965
Ben Shahn
photo-offset reproduction on paper
Cover Print for “Ben Shahn on Human Rights”
1960
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
Warsaw
1943; printed 1963
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
1965
Ben Shahn
white and black silkscreen lettering and watercolor wash on paper
Andrew Goodman
1965
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
James Chaney
1965
Ben Shahn
offset photolithograph on paper
Michael Schwerner
1965
Ben Shahn
offset photolithograph on paper
We Shall Overcome
1965
Ben Shahn
offset photolithograph on paper
Tired Marchers Sleep on the Streets—”We were tired, we were tired.”, Selma, Alabama
1963, printed 2000
Edward (Robbie) Roberson
inkjet print on paper
Credo (large)
1960
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
Frederick Douglass
1965
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
Frederick Douglass
1965
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
Frederick Douglass
1965
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
Frederick Douglass
1965
Ben Shahn
serigraph on paper
Malcolm X Speaks for Us
1969
Elizabeth Catlett
linoleum cut on paper
March on Washington, [SNCC members and friends defiantly gather to sing freedom songs], from “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement”
1963; printed 2010
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
Ralph Allen taking an affidavit from Carolyn Daniels in Terrill County, from “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement”
1962; printed 2010
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
The mass meeting in Danville is so crowded that it overflows out into the yard. When word arrives that heavily armed police and an armored vehicle are waiting up the road, the crowd disperses, leaving the SNCC workers to exit last, from “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement”
1963; printed 2010
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
Protest Marching in an Intersection
June 5, 1966
Joanne Leonard
gelatin silver print on paper
The Screams (Munch and Civil Rights)
2012
Joanne Leonard
inkjet print on paper
Protestors Lined Up Around Boards with Lettering J O B A R T
circa 1965
Joanne Leonard
gelatin silver print on paper
McCloymonds High School Band Members Posing Under “Prescott Council” Sign
circa 1965
Joanne Leonard
gelatin silver print on paper
The American Way: Err #3
1964
Robert Indiana
brown conté crayon on white paper
Love
1967
Robert Indiana
color lithograph on paper

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