For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and curated by Maurice Berger, is the first comprehensive museum exhibition to explore the historic role played by visual images in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for civil rights in the United States. Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores fight for racial equality and justice from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. For All the World to See includes a traveling exhibition, website, online film festival, and richly illustrated companion book.
Read a review of the exhibition by Lionel Foster for the Baltimore Sun: “Using images to change history”
Listen to Maurice Bergers’ interview for NPR’s Maryland Morning about the exhibition: “Viewing the Civil Rights Movement Through a New Lens”