Read: Leigh Raiford, Excerpt from Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare (First half of Ch. 2, “Come Let Us Build a New World Together,” pp. 67-102 – stop at section break)


View: Photograph of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike by Ernest Withers, plus other Civil Rights photography

Withers’s photograph presented on the High Museum of Art website

Withers’s photograph presented on the Smithsonian American Art Museum website

The High Museum of Art website includes a gallery of Withers’s other photography – use arrows to navigate at bottom of page. The Smithsonian American Art Museum website gives useful historical and contextual info.

High Museum of Art Civil Rights photography collection

Magnum Photos (photo agency) Civil Rights photography page

… plus work by contemporary artists citing, referring to, or reworking, the “I AM A MAN” placard (cf. Sharon Hayes, Glenn Ligon, Dread Scott, Hank Willis Thomas).

Glenn Ligon (2000)

https://hammer.ucla.edu/take-it-or-leave-it/art/condition-report

Sharon Hayes (2005)

https://artfacts.net/exhibition/sharon-hayes—in-the-near-future/134796

Dread Scott (2009)

Hank Willis Thomas (2009)

https://hankwillisthomas.com/works/i-am-a-man


Research: photography & recent social movements (including BLM)