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The nationally touring exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, from NEH on the Road, traces the role that images and media played in igniting the Civil Rights Movement. For All the World to See will run from Saturday, September 6 through Sunday, October 26 at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA.

The museum will host a range of public programs: "On Saturday, September 13, at 2 p.m., Dr. Leonard Bethel of Rutgers University discusses his biography of educator and activist, Layle Lane, in the program, La Citadelle: Layle Lane Civil Rights Pioneer. The film, Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders, will be shown on Saturday, September 20 at 2 p.m., and will be followed by a discussion with the film’s producer, Joan Sadoff. Dr. Deborah Willis, a consultant on the For All the World to See exhibit, presents the lecture: For All the World to See: Photography and Visual Media in Movements for Change, on Saturday, September 27 at 2 p.m. The preceding programs are all included with museum admission. The theatrical concert, We Shall Not Be Moved! features vocalist and actor, Keith Spencer, performing popular songs and poignant readings from the Civil Rights era, on Saturday, October 18 at 3 p.m. The concert is $15 per person and includes museum admission."

>Read more about FATWTS at The Mercer Museum here.

The NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See will open on 3 September at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Read the article by Clint Cooper in the Times Free Press.

> Read coverage of FATWTS in Chattanooga

A number of our friends have inquired about the schedule for the NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See. Here it is:

April 06, 2012 - May 25, 2012
Wyandotte County Historical Museum
Bonner Springs, KS CLOSED

July 16, 2012 - October 20, 2012
Terrebonne Parish Library
Houma, LA CLOSED

November 10, 2012 - January 07, 2013
Kansas African American Museum
Wichita, KS CLOSED

January 28, 2013 - March 16, 2013
William F. Laman Public Library
North Little Rock, AR CLOSED

April 6, 2013 - May 25, 2013
Chippewa Valley Museum
Eau Claire, WI CLOSED

June 16, 2013 - August 11, 2013
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR CLOSED

September 01, 2013 - October 20, 2013
Bessie Smith Cultural Center
Chattanooga, TN CLOSED

November 10, 2013 - January 07, 2014
[Refurbishment]
Kansas City, MO

January 28, 2014 - March 16, 2014
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX CLOSED

April 06, 2014 - May 25, 2014
William Jewell College
Liberty, MO

June 16, 2014 - August 11, 2014
OPEN DATE

September 01, 2014 - October 20, 2014
Mercer Museum
Doylestown, PA

November 10, 2014 - January 7, 2015
Black History Museum
Richmond, VA

January 28, 2015 - March 16, 2015
Bell County Museum
Belton, TX

April 06, 2015 - May 25, 2015
Stearns History Museum
St. Cloud, MN

June 16, 2015 - August 11, 2015
Love's Jazz and Art Center
Omaha, NE

September 01, 2015 - October 20, 2015
Branigan Cultural Center
Las Cruces, NM

November 10, 2015 - January 07, 2016
Cape Fear Museum
Wilmington, NC

January 28, 2016 - March 16, 2016
Alexandria Black History Museum
Alexandria, VA

April 6, 2016 - May 25, 2016
Kean University
Union, NJ

June 16, 2016 - August 11, 2016
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
New London, CT

September 01, 2016 - October 20, 2016
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL

November 10, 2016 - January 07, 2017
West Baton Rouge Museum
West Baton Rouge, LA

January 28, 2017 - March 16, 2017
Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council
Texarkana, TX

Opening this Sunday, 16 June 2013, at the Oregon History Museum in Portland: The NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See.

> Read about FATWTS in The Portland Observer

> Read about FATWTS on the Oregon History Museum website

The NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See is now in Wisconsin.

> Read about it here.

The big version of For All the World to See has just opened at its final venue: The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts (thru 31 July 2013). Through its first five venues--International Center of Photography (New York), DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago), Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (DC), National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis), and Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC (Baltimore)--the exhibition had had nearly 800,000 visitors. Via its smaller, lower-security NEH on the Road version, it will reach many thousands more.

But don't miss the big show: more than 200 objects and clips from motion pictures and television.

> Read more about FATWTS at The Addison

The NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See is now at the Laman Library in North Little Rock, AK. Read about it in the Arkansas Times. The big show continues at CADVC in Baltimore through 10 March 2013.

> Read about the project in the Arkansas Times

Hear For All the World to See curator Maurice Berger on NPR's Maryland Morning and read about this project in Lionel Foster's incisive on moving essay in the Baltimore Sun.

> Hear interview with curator Maurice Berger on Maryland Morning

> Read Lionel Foster's Incisive commentary in the Baltimore Sun

Excellent coverage of For All the World to See in our hometown newspaper, the Baltimore City Paper!

> Read The City Paper Essay Here

Read this important article about the NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See on the website of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

> Read the NEH article

2012-13 UMBC For All the World to See Humanities Forum Events

The 2012-13 Humanities Forum series sponsored by The James T. and Virginia M. Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC will feature several events in conjunction with For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, on view at the Center for art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC from 15 Nov. 2012 to 10 March 2013

28 Nov. 2012 4 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Collecting, Preserving, and Interpreting African American History and Culture

Panelists: Kinshasha Holman Conwill, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland, Moira Hinderer, Afro American Newspaper Archive, Moderator: Denise Meringolo, UMBC

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5 Dec. 2012 4 p.m. Proscenium Theater
The Civil Rights Movement from the Ground Up

Learn about the unsung young men and women who were at the forefront of the civil rights movement, in particular those in SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which grew out of the 1960 sit ins by African-American college students. Julian Bond, one of the founders of SNCC and later chairman of the NAACP, Andrew Lewis, the author of The Shadows of Youth: The Story of the Civil Rights Generation, and UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski, who participated in the Birmingham Children’s March of 1963, will discuss the crucial--often under-appreciated--role youth and college students played in the movement. Moderated by Taylor Branch.

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13 February 2013 4 p.m. Library
Panel Discussion: Race and the Civil Rights Movement in Music and the Media

Derek Musgrove, UMBC’s History Department, Michelle Scott, UMBC’s History Department, David Zurawik (Baltimore Sun and WYPR)

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27 February 2013 7 p.m. Location TBA

Thulani Davis: Blackface: From the Age of Civil Rights to the Age of Obama

Read these excellent reviews of the NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See in Louisiana newspapers and blogs!

> Read the newest review of For All the World to See in The Daily Comet

> Read this earlier review in the Daily Comet

> Read about FATWTS in HOUMA TODAY

> Terrebonne Parish Library Newsletter

> Follow Up on FATWTS in the Daily Comet

The NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See just opened at its next venue: Terrebonne Parish Main Library in Houma, Louisiana. It's up until 20 October 2012!

> Read More About This Venue

NEH on the Road version For All the World to See on NPR: Central Standard Time show on KCUR, Kansas City!

> Click here to Listen to NPR coverage of NEH on the Road/FATWTS

For those of our visitors in the New York City area, please drop by the Whitney Museum of American Art from 9 to 13 May and see For All the World to See curator, Maurice Berger's video, Threshold, which will be projected continuously during the residency--BLEED--curated for the Whitney Biennial by Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran. The Whitney writes: "BLEED will present five days of live music, exploring the power of performance to cross barriers and challenge assumptions, as their title, BLEED, suggests. With a line-up of concerts and events spanning music, dance, theater, and literature, as well as an exhibition of past video collaborations with Glenn Ligon, Joan Jonas, Kara Walker, and Simone Leigh and Liz Magic Laser—and a new video by the cultural historian Maurice Berger—BLEED is a celebration of surprising synergy across the visual arts and music."

Here is more about Threshold from the Whitney press release:

"Over the past seventeen years, the cultural historian Maurice Berger has produced cinematic 'culture stories,' syncopated compilations of historic clips from American film and television that explore issues of identity and self-representation. Threshold is a continuum of images from popular culture produced during the period of or about the historic civil rights movement. It riffs on the crossing of thresholds—walking through doors, boarding trains and buses, entering cars, gliding across stages, stepping up to podiums, and even the imagined passage from Earth to heaven—that have defined the voice, place, and aspirations of a people. The story it tells is one of self-possession and triumph: the epic passage across thresholds that, in the context of this film, serve as metaphors of the barriers, glass ceilings, and restrictions then imposed on African Americans."

> For more on BLEED and the full schedule of events, Click Here

Read more about For All the World to See/NEH on the Road at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum in the Kansas City Studio!

>Read About FATWTS/NEH on the Road in the KC Studio