Black History Month @ Taft: Black Resistance Gallery

1941 

Picket Line, South Chicago. The signs read: "Slavery was abolished, yet we work for $8 a week" and "Mid City Realty unfair. Underpays its workers, overcharges its tenants. Support strike!"

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August 28, 1963

Over 200,000 people assembled in front of the Washington Monument for the Freedom March for civil rights, Washington, D.C.

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March 1965

Children watching the march from Selma to Montgomery.

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1968 

Members of the Student Afro-American Society (SAS), a black militant protest group, demonstrating on the Columbia University campus. The group took part in the occupation of Hamilton Hall during the 1968 protests.

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2020 

George Floyd Memorial  at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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2020

Protest to arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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February 22, 1956

American civil rights advocate. Rosa Parks fingerprinted by a Montgomery, Alabama, police officer, 22 February 1956, following her arrest for her role in organizing a boycott of the city's buses to protest their racial segregation of passengers. 

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1960 Charlotte, North Carolina

It was the college students from Johnson C. Smith University (a black school at the time) who took park in the sit-ins the second week in February (1960). These students also started picketing a downtown theatre to allow blacks to sit downstairs in the theater. The sit-ins had taken store management by surprise; the waitresses didn't know what to do and just faded away, leaving the students sitting at the counters. The students had told the chief of police what they were going to do in advance. The chief of police had promised to make no arrests if they did it in an orderly way and he kept his word; no police ever appeared at the Charlotte sit-ins and there were no arrests. After a few hours , the students left and the stores put up signs saying their lunch counters were temporarily closed.

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March 1965

American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. Second from left is John Lewis, who went on to serve in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020.

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October 16, 1968 

The Black Power salute was a human rights protest and one of the most overtly political statements in the 110 year history of the modern Olympic Games. African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed their Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

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2020

Black Lives Matter memorial depicting injustice and names of victims of police brutality, New York City.

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