AUGUST 29TH, 2010
Organized by
THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, Atlanta
During the span of twelve years, a series of events, later hailed as the Civil Rights Movement, would forever change the social and political course of America. The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968, an exhibitions that chronicling these pivotal moments in the nation’s history. Featuring 150 vintage photographs, Road to Freedom is the most comprehensive collection of photographic prints and related artifacts ever devoted to the subject and was organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.
Dr. King and Coretta Scott King
Marching, Montgomery, Alabama, 1965
Gelatin silver print
© Morton Broffman
Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, 1963
Gelatin silver print
© Bob Adelman
Selma to Montgomery March, 1965
Gelatin silver print
© Estate of James Karales
Hon. Eric Adams Dr. Rae Alexander-Minter* Mr. Leroy Archibald Hon. Carmen Arroyo Hon. Maria del Carmen Arroyo Mr. Sigmund Balka* Ms. Linda Blumberg* Hon. Michael Benjamin Mr. Roscoe Brown Mr. Elliot Brownstein* Ms. Victoria Cabanos* Hon. Nelson Castro Hon. Marcos Crespo Ms. Joy Crichlow Ms. Donna Davis Hon. Gloria Davis Hon. Ruben Diaz, Jr. Ms. Alessandra DiGiusto* Mr. Lloyd Douglas Mr. Allen Duan* Ms. Hazel Dukes Hon. Pedro Espada, Jr. Dr. Ricardo Fernandez Hon. Helen D. Foster Hon. Vanessa L. Gibson, Chair Hon. Aurelia Greene, Chair Hon. Ruth Hassell-Thompson Dr. Roy Hastic Hon. Carl Heastie Mr. Jay Herchenson Mr. George Hulse Hon. Hakeem Jeffries Hon. Ken Jenkins Ms. Simone Klabin* Ms. Alice Kosmin* Ms. Joan Krevlin* Mr. Whitfield Lovell* Hon. Helen Marshal Mr. Cormac McEnery* Dr. Ifeoma Okoronkwo* Hon. Annabel Palma Mrs. Lisa Payne Wansley Hon. Nick Perry Mr. Bernard P. Pierorazio Mr. Jonathan Plotkin* Hon. J. Gary Pretlow Ms. Dionne H.E. Polite Hon. Adam Clayton Powell Mr. Douglas Rice* Hon. Naomi Rivera Hon. Peter M. Rivera Hon. Joel Rivera Mrs. Beverly Roberts Ms. Andrea Rockower Dr. Felix Matos Rodriguez Mr. Tim Rollins* Mr. Joseph M. Rose* Ms. Ruth Corn Roth* Hon. John L. Sampson Hon. James Sanders Mr. Don Savelson* Hon. Larry B. Seabrook, Jr. Ms. Arden Shelton Ms. Neva Shillingford Hon. Malcom Smith Hon. Andrea Stewart-Cousins Hon. James Vacca Mr. Charles Wilcox* Dr. Elisabeth Wilson Hon. Clinton I. Young, Jr. *BXMA Trustee
ROAD TO FREEDOM: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1956-1968 is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. This exhibition is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts' presentation of these exhibitions is made possible by American Express and Bloomberg. Additional support has been provided by the Lambent Foundation, The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Cher Lewis, The O'Grady Foundation, George Mills, Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Foundation and an anonymous supporter.
