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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The Civil Rights Movement: Revolutionary Anger And The Struggle For Human Equality
1. 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.ca
October 2004
Eye
Conics
2. 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
4. 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.
5. 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.
9. The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike For Basic
Economic Justice, A Turning Point For American
Civil Rights – February 1968
10. 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.
11. Power To The People
March On Washington August 28th , 1963
12. 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.
13. Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X Attain
Heroic Stature At Home And Abroad
14. Two Radical Visions: Malcolm X and Martin
Luther King Jr. At The Height Of Their Powers
16. “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”.
20. World Anger Refocused on ‘The Banality Of
Evil’ And The Horror Of Human Rights
Abuses as a Global Phenomenon
21. March 21, 1960
69 Killed
March 16, 1968
Over 300 Killed
The Sharpeville And Mai Lai Massacres In
Vietnam And South Africa Redefine Civil
Rights As An Inescapable Global
Responsibility
22. The ANC’s Struggle Against Apartheid Links
Racial Equality And Human Rights