Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard FreedClevland Museum of art
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed in 1963 that one hundred years after the abolition of slavery in America “the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination... [He] lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” This exhibition presents two views of African American daily life during the civil rights era through the photographs of Louis Draper, a black fine art photographer, and Leonard Freed, a white photojournalist...
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