Women March, the current exhibition in the Joyce B. Cowin Gallery of Women’s History, looks at 200 years of women’s activism, including a variety of strategies and tactics, from speeches and writing to fundraising and protests. It includes more than 80 film clips from 1915 to 2019 to create an immersive experience and highlight the…
Read MoreThere are numerous accounts and retellings of momentous civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s. Perhaps most notable is the march from Selma to Montgomery, AL, which took three attempts and federal protection for activists to reach their destination safely on March 25, 1965, and which pushed President Lyndon B. Johnson to send voting rights legislation…
Read MoreWomen March, the immersive New-York Historical exhibition about 200 years of women’s activism and organizing, demonstrates that collective action begins when just one person confronts injustice, and then another joins her, and then another. The exhibition features a digital interactive on individuals’ lives, representing a portrait of some of the many instrumental figures in women’s activism….
Read More“We march because we deem it a crime to be silent in the face of such barbaric acts.“ “We march because we want our children to live in a better land and enjoy fairer conditions than have fallen to our lot.“ “We live in spite of death shadowing us and ours. We prosper in the…
Read MoreEvery American knows the story of Rosa Parks. Her refusal to surrender a bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 led to her arrest and sparked the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, a pivotal protest of the Civil Rights era that helped turn a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. into a national…
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