Before social media, the only way most people heard about the civil rights struggle was through the hard work of writers and photographers “embedded” into the movement, on the scene in the American South, bringing back scenes of racial division, homegrown terror, Ku Klux Klan attacks, and the heroic efforts of those working on the right side of history.
Listen as CoolCleveland speaks with Les Kelen, Executive Director of the Center for Documentary Expression & Art, and organizer of This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, on display now on view at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage through April 2, 2023. View the video here.
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