The Way of The Blerd

Exotic dancer Zorita walks her snake (ca. late 1930s)

German officials lead President John F. Kennedy through Frankfurt on his way to Berlin, John Loengard, 1963

A mule train, part of Martin Luther King Jr’s Poor People’s Campaign, leaves Marks, Mississippi for Washington DC, Ernest C. Withers, 1968

William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones (8 months old) during protest, Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, Ernest C. Withers, August 1961

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Francis Miller, 1963

We Shall Overcome (the James Meredith March Against Fear), Harry Benson, June 1966

Mourners bid farewell to slain NAACP official Medgar Evers at his funeral, Jackson, Miss., John Loengard, June 15, 1963

Almost Immediately After Telling Marchers They had “Two Minutes to Disperse” the State Troopers Charge with Their Billy Clubs, Selma, Alabama, Charles Moore, 1965

MLK funeral street scene with National Guard, Atlanta, Georgia, Burk Uzzle, 1968

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