#Repost @bronxmuseum The Museum will be open in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, January 16, 11am to 6pm. Collection Spotlight: Morton Broffman In honor of Martin Luther King Day and #BlackHistoryMonth, the Bronx Museum is featuring four works by the Bronx-born photographer Morton Broffman. “In the spring of 1965, Broffman was among the scores of print journalists, television reporters, and photographers from around the country who traveled to Alabama in 1965 to participate in and record the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march. The fifty-four miles from Selma to Montgomery along Highway 80 took marchers five days to complete. It was the largest civil rights demonstration the state had ever seen, with newcomers who had never participated in the movement walking side by side with veterans who had been campaigning for the right to vote for more than a decade. By the final day of the march—the entry into the state capital, Montgomery, on March 25, 1965—the number had swollen to some twenty-five to thirty thousand people. Excerpts from “Camera with a Conscience: Morton Broffman and the #CivilRightsMovement” by Julian Cox, in "Three Photographers from the Bronx: #JulesAarons, #MortonBroffman, #JoeConzo" (New York: The #BronxMuseum of the Arts, 2015). #martinlutherking #mlk #bronxlife (en Brooklyn Museum)
