Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement (Last Day) Skirball Cultural Center California LA Metro: Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, Ventura County - United States History: archeology Sun 7 Mar 2010
History: archeology
Sun 7 Mar 2010
2010
March 2010
Sunday 7 March 2010
Sun 7 Mar. 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, 90049. 310-440-4500. Skirball Cultural Center - [email][events]
Admission: Included with Museum admission: $10 General; $7 Seniors and Full-Time Students; $5 Children 2–12; Free to Members and Children under 2; Free to all on Thursdays Featuring nearly 170 unforgettable images by more than thirty-five photographers, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 tracks a crucial episode in American social and political history. Poignant and deeply affecting, the photographs in this exhibition portray historical turning points such as the Montgomery bus boycott (1956), the Freedom Rides to the Deep South (1961), the March on Washington (1963), the Selma-to-Montgomery march (1965), the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968), and the Poor People's Campaign (1968). Some of the photographs ha