124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Visualizing the Struggle: The Central Role of Images in the Long Civil Rights Movement

Visualizing the Struggle: The Central Role of Images in the Long Civil Rights Movement

AHA Session 123

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Manchester Ballroom D (Hyatt)

Chair:

Casey Blake, Columbia University

Papers:

Fighting on the Art Front: Visual Activism for Civil Rights in New York City, 1940–56
Erin P. Cohn, University of Pennsylvania

“I Don't Deal in Relaxation Music. I Deal in News”: Civil Rights and the Blues Photography of Ernest C. Withers
W. Brian Piper, College of William and Mary

Memories in the Marketplace: Civil Rights Movement Images and Intellectual Property Law
Gail J. Drakes, New York University

Comment:

Maren Stange, The Cooper Union

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