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"Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle," author and exhibition curator, Dr. Martin A. Berger explores images of the Civil Rights era.

In collective memory, the Civil Rights Movement is remembered by dramatic scenes - protesters attacked by police dogs or black activists victimized by violence. Berger asserts that other pictures tell other stories. Blacks changed American discriminatory practices through their action, not their suffering.

Dr. Martin A. Berger is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Berger's presentation is part of "Freedom to Expand: Gordon Parks Community Symposium." Three Wichita museums, (The Kansas African American Museum, Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, and Wichita Art Museum), partnered with simultaneous exhibitions devoted to Gordon Parks (1912-2006), a Kansas native and one of the most prolific and esteemed African American artists of the 20th century. In February 2016, the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University and the Wichita Art Museum collaborated on a two-day forum of presentations and conversations with nationally recognized speakers and scholars.

Originally recorded Saturday, February 13, 2016 in the Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall at the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas.

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