The Keith de Lellis Gallery presents Righting Civil Wrongs. Vintage Photographs of the Struggle for Racial Equality, fifty years after the Selma March. Featuring over 50 vintage prints, the exhibition depicts some of the most relevant events of the African-American civil rights movement: the Little Rock Crisis (1957), the March on Washington (1963), the Selma March (1965), the March against Fear (1966) and Martin Luther King’s assassination (1968).
The original photographs on view have been made by some of the most famous photojournalists of the fight against racial discrimination: Charles Moore, Flip Schulke, James Karales, Joe Scherschel, Ed Clark… Some have been commissioned by the two most popular US magazines Life and Look, and published there as portfolios, provoking reactions from politicians, and receiving awards, and becoming iconic for the next generation.
