CADVC’s Exhibit, “For All the World to See,” in the Boston Globe

In 1955, the photograph of Emmett Till’s mutilated body was for many African-Americans the visual equivalent of a knock-out punch. No mainstream newspaper or magazine published the photo, but the black press did. “That single image played a powerful role in building the civil rights movement, we learn in Maurice Berger’s ‘For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,’” said the Boston Globe. The exhibit will be on display at the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture beginning May 21.

The article, “Images from the civil rights movement,” ran Sunday, April 11, in the Boston Globe.