Martin Berger's "Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle" Opens This Month

What if some iconic images of historical moments were seen through another, more accurate lens? 

For many the civil rights movement is remembered through photographs of black protesters on the receiving end of white aggression. In his book, Seeing through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography Martin Berger shares the reasons behind iconic images from that era, but he argues that blacks changed America through their action, not their suffering.

Berger's exhibition Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle illustrates the power of black activism in driving social and legislative change. The exhibition opens Monday, November 10^th at Hanes Gallery on the Wake Forest University campus. Berger's free public lecture and reception is Monday, November 17, at 5:30pm in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. 

Acting Dean of the Arts, and Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Martin Berger shares the context behind one of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement era.