tag:www.umbc.edu,2012:/blogs/foralltheworld/54 2012-02-22T15:30:44Z For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights Exhibition and Book News Movable Type 3.34 tag:www.umbc.edu,2012:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15564 2012-02-18T16:38:46Z 2012-02-22T15:30:44Z

Read all about it: For All the World to See in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and MSNBC Iternaries plus an outstanding feature on the NEH on the Road version of the exhibition at its first venue--the Wyandotte County Historical...

mberger For All the World to See in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and MSNBC Iternaries plus an outstanding feature on the NEH on the Road version of the exhibition at its first venue--the Wyandotte County Historical Museum, Bonner Springs, Kansas (starting 6 April 2012)--in the Kansas City Kansan! > Read About FATWTS in the Washington Post > Read about FATWTS on The Huffington Post > Read About FATWTS on MSNBC-Itineraries >Read about FATWTS/NEH on the Road in the Kansas City Kansan]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2012:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15537 2012-02-04T14:14:28Z 2012-02-04T14:26:54Z

In celebration of Black History Month, the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grantees pay tribute to the contributions of African Americans to our nation and its history with numerous events and cultural programs. Click on below for...

mberger In celebration of Black History Month, the National Endowment for the Humanities and its grantees pay tribute to the contributions of African Americans to our nation and its history with numerous events and cultural programs. Click on below for coverage of NEH-supported events, exhibitions, and resources focusing on African American history and culture taking place around the country this February--lists that feature For All the World to See! > Click Here for the NEH Black History Month Recommendations ***************************************************************************** Also, for teachers or museum educators: The National Endowment for the Humanities recommends the For All the World to See website as an important Black History Month teaching resource! > Check Out the NEH EDSITEment Black History Month Page ]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2012:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15530 2012-02-01T14:29:17Z 2012-02-01T14:34:14Z

National Civil Right Museum is sponsoring a film series that reflect themes in the exhibit For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, on display through Aug. 20. A one-hour documentary film produced...

mberger National Civil Right Museum is sponsoring a film series that reflect themes in the exhibit For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, on display through Aug. 20. A one-hour documentary film produced for the Smithsonian Channel on the last days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will premiere at the National Civil Rights Museum next Wednesday as part of a series of free Black History Month events. The documentary MLK: The Assassination Tapes is derived almost entirely from 1968 television news footage and radio broadcasts and follows King from the weeks leading to his visit to Memphis and to the aftermath of his murder on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. The premiere will be in the museum auditorium at 6 p.m. It will air on the Smithsonian Channel at 8 p.m. Feb. 12. The film is part of a free series that opens Thursday with Ethnic Notions, a 1986 Emmy-winning documentary tracing stereotypes that have fueled anti-black prejudice. > For more on the film series click here ]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2012:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15467 2012-01-16T18:19:43Z 2012-01-16T22:48:14Z

For All the World to See would like to share this amazing footage of Coretta Scott King memorializing her husband on The Ed Sullivan Show. On March 22, 1970 Mrs. King appeared on the program to introduce clips of...

mberger For All the World to See would like to share this amazing footage of Coretta Scott King memorializing her husband on The Ed Sullivan Show. On March 22, 1970 Mrs. King appeared on the program to introduce clips of her late husband Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his most famous speeches. These clips were used in the historical documentary film “King: A Filmed Record--Montgomery to Memphis” > Click Here To Watch Coretta Scott King on The Ed Sullivan Show ]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2012:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15466 2012-01-15T04:26:40Z 2012-01-15T04:32:22Z

Attention teachers: For All the World to See is now part of the "Oh Freedom" Teacher Bibliography--Teaching African American Civil Rights Through American Art at the Smithsonian! Learn more about the teaching of civil rights through the For All...

mberger Attention teachers: For All the World to See is now part of the "Oh Freedom" Teacher Bibliography--Teaching African American Civil Rights Through American Art at the Smithsonian! Learn more about the teaching of civil rights through the For All the World to See online exhibition and website. > Read More About FATWTS and the "Oh Freedom" Initiative]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15448 2011-12-23T22:32:40Z 2012-01-15T04:34:48Z

By Maurice Berger, For All the World to See project director and curator In a series of short essays published over the next year, I will examine recent efforts by scholars, artists, writers, and producers to rethink the visual...

mberger By Maurice Berger, For All the World to See project director and curator In a series of short essays published over the next year, I will examine recent efforts by scholars, artists, writers, and producers to rethink the visual culture of the civil rights movement. First up: my take on the set of exceptionally entertaining DVDs of Motown acts on The Ed Sullivan Show, produced by SOFA Entertainment. In the 1960s, the Sullivan show regularly booked African American artists from a then small record company from Detroit founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in 1960--Motown--introducing the nation to most of the company’s acts and helping to turn Motown into a national institution. One compilation from the set—Motown Gold from The Ed Sullivan Show—presents scores of thrilling performances, from such notable singers and groups as The Supremes, Four Tops, Gladys Night and the Pips, The Jackson 5, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, and the Temptations. Two more discs—The Best of the Temptations and The Best of the Supremes—pay homage to popular Motown acts who appeared regularly on the program. Collectively, the DVD collection offers a sustained picture of a group of entertainers who profoundly influenced American popular culture of the 1960s. In the context of For All the World to See and its soon to open NEH on the Road iteration—both exhibitions include a section of 21-historic clips of African American performers on the Sullivan program—the Motown DVDs help us to understand, while simultaneously entertaining us, the vital role played by African American artists, as well as Ed Sullivan himself, in advancing the cause of civil rights. If prime-time dramas and situation comedies of the civil rights era rarely featured African-American actors or subject matter, The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as several other groundbreaking variety programs of the period, actively showcased black acts. Sullivan’s weekly variety hour, broadcast live on Sunday evening, was a civil rights trailblazer, granting unprecedented visibility to African-American entertainers who were often invisible in mainstream popular culture. The most successful variety-hour on American television, the Sullivan show introduced a generation of Americans to a broad array of artists. Despite ongoing battles with conservative sponsors, Sullivan, the show’s producer and host, created an early and reliable forum for African-American singers, actors, and comedians. By showing black and white performers interacting as equals, and by bringing these entertainers into the homes of millions of Americans on a weekly basis, the program, as well as Sullivan himself, set an example of racial acceptance and integration, not just for the entertainment industry but for the nation at large. In the end, The Ed Sullivan Show advanced the cause of civil rights by enfranchising African American performers, from its inception in 1948 to its last show in 1971. For black viewers, such performances were a source of pride and mainstream validation. For all viewers, these shows demonstrated the promise and desirability of integration by presenting black and white professionals interacting as equals. As powerfully as any contemporary exploration of black entertainers in the civil rights era, SOFA Entertainment’s Motown collection foregrounds this relatively under-represented aspect of civil rights history—reminding us of the power of gifted African American artists, a determined producer-host, and television itself, a relatively young medium at the time, to change the world. Next up: scholar Christine Acham's groundbreaking study, Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) ]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15411 2011-11-28T21:46:36Z 2011-12-12T19:49:18Z

For All the World to See has six confirmed venues. Here is the final and complete national tour: New York: International Center of Photography 21 May to 12 September 2010 (closed) > FATWTS at the International Center of Photography Chicago:...

mberger For All the World to See has six confirmed venues. Here is the final and complete national tour: New York: International Center of Photography 21 May to 12 September 2010 (closed) > FATWTS at the International Center of Photography Chicago: DuSable Museum of African American History 17 January to 16 May 2011 (closed) Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of American History 10 June to 27 November 2011 (closed) > FATWTS at the Smithsonian Institution Memphis: National Civil Rights Museum 12 January through 20 August 2012 > National Civil Rights Museum website Baltimore: Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County November 2012 to March 2013 > FATWTS at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Andover, Massachusetts: Addison Gallery of American Art April to July 2013 Stay tuned for news about the upcoming national tour of the NEH on the Road version of For All the World to See, which opens in Kansas in April 2012. Full venue listing to come. ]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15403 2011-11-21T15:37:32Z 2011-12-23T16:40:39Z

For All the World to See now has a sixth venue for its full-sized version: the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, 12 January 2012 through 20 August 2012! > Read About FATWTS on the National Civil Rights...

mberger For All the World to See now has a sixth venue for its full-sized version: the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, 12 January 2012 through 20 August 2012! > Read About FATWTS on the National Civil Rights Museum website]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15353 2011-10-27T15:12:27Z 2011-10-27T15:16:36Z

BET--Black Entertainment Television--recommends For All the World to See as the place to go an important African American cultural experience! > Read the Recommendation form BET...

mberger BET--Black Entertainment Television--recommends For All the World to See as the place to go an important African American cultural experience! > Read the Recommendation form BET]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15322 2011-10-06T14:47:48Z 2011-10-06T14:52:21Z

The For All the Word to See website has just been selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for its EDSITEment educational initiative! EDSITEment websites have been approved and recommended for use in the classroom by the NEH...

mberger The For All the Word to See website has just been selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for its EDSITEment educational initiative! EDSITEment websites have been approved and recommended for use in the classroom by the NEH as the "best of the humanities on the web." > Go to the NEH EDSITEment Page!]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15314 2011-10-03T19:22:12Z 2011-10-03T19:27:19Z

For All the World to See is now part of a Smithsonian-wide conversation on race! For more, read this piece in Anthropology News--"Washington Talks About Race" by Joslyn Osten. > Read the article in Anthropology News...

mberger For All the World to See is now part of a Smithsonian-wide conversation on race! For more, read this piece in Anthropology News--"Washington Talks About Race" by Joslyn Osten. > Read the article in Anthropology News]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15291 2011-09-19T15:58:37Z 2011-09-19T20:47:22Z

Smithsonian Magazine's profile of For All the World to See curator, Prof. Maurice Berger, is now online, along with a slide show of materials in the exhibition! > Read the Profile and View the Slide Show...

mberger Smithsonian Magazine's profile of For All the World to See curator, Prof. Maurice Berger, is now online, along with a slide show of materials in the exhibition! > Read the Profile and View the Slide Show]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15287 2011-09-14T17:48:36Z 2011-09-14T17:56:27Z

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is organizing a special tour of For All the World to See in October: The King of Civil Rights Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:00pm - 5:00pm $34.00 per person Truly deserving of...

mberger The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is organizing a special tour of For All the World to See in October: The King of Civil Rights Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:00pm - 5:00pm $34.00 per person Truly deserving of recognition are the peaceful efforts towards full inclusion of the African American people made by Dr. Martin Luther King. Today, guests will visit the National Museum of American History to explore the exhibit, For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. It is the first exhibition to explore the role played by visual images in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for civil rights in the United States. En-route, guests will ride past the Willard Hotel where Dr. King penned his famous "I Have a Dream" speech and a visit will made to the Lincoln Memorial, the site of King's historic delivery of that speech. Lastly, guests will visit the newest memorial on the National Mall, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial. Recently dedicated, the memorial conveys four fundamental and recurring themes throughout Dr. King's life - democracy, justice, hope, and love. The centerpiece of the Memorial, the "Stone of Hope", features a 30-foot likeness of Dr. King. > Read More About the FATWTS Tour]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15274 2011-09-09T20:33:51Z 2011-09-09T20:40:36Z

Washington DC's renowned Arena Stage recommends a visit to For All the World to See in its Stage Banter blog! The exhibition remains at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History through 27 November 2011. > Read Arena Stage's...

mberger Washington DC's renowned Arena Stage recommends a visit to For All the World to See in its Stage Banter blog! The exhibition remains at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History through 27 November 2011. > Read Arena Stage's Recommendation]]> tag:www.umbc.edu,2011:/blogs/foralltheworld//54.15231 2011-08-29T16:06:28Z 2011-08-29T16:12:15Z

Event at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Guided tours of For All the World to See on Tuesday, 30 August 2011. From Smithsonian Magazine: "Members of the Civil Rights movement made heavy use of visual imagery in...

mberger Event at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Guided tours of For All the World to See on Tuesday, 30 August 2011. From Smithsonian Magazine: "Members of the Civil Rights movement made heavy use of visual imagery in spreading awareness of their cause, from television to movies, magazines, newspapers, and posters. Experience For All the World to See with a firsthand docent-guided tour to get a fuller understanding of this critical period through this fascinating lens. Free. 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. African American History and Culture Museum. > More Info on FATWTS Guided Tours]]>