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Special Exhibition at Toledo Museum of Art Marks 50th
Anniversary of Civil Rights Act
Special to The Truth
After a year of social tumult and congressional debate, the U.S.
Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964. In
honor of those who fought for the right of all citizens to
be treated fairly and equally, the Toledo Museum of Art is
presenting a special exhibition of works of art that examine
slavery, segregation and the civil rights movement in the
United States.
People Get Ready: 50 Years of Civil Rights features more than 35 works from the Museum’s collection by
Elizabeth Catlett, David Levinthal, Gordon Parks, Aminah
Robinson, W. Eugene Smith and others who have illuminated
and challenged prejudice and bigotry through their prints,
photographs and books.
The exhibition is on view June 27–Sept. 21 in the Hitchcock
Gallery. Admission is free.
One highlight is a series of photographs by Ernest C. Withers,
according to the show’s organizer Thomas Loeffler, assistant
curator for works on paper at the Museum. The
African-American photographer witnessed and documented a
number of significant civil rights events of the late 1960s,
including the first desegregated bus ride in Montgomery,
Alabama, and Martin Luther King’s funeral. The pictures are
from the photographer’s portfolio
I Am A Man.
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