Friday, October 10th, 2014, Levine Museum of the New South is holding a reception for the opening of a new exhibit, Selma to Montgomery: March for the Right to Vote. The event takes place from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the museum, 200 East 7th Street. Enjoy a first look at this new exhibit, a light reception followed by a panel discussion that looks at recent elections and explores the impact of changes in voting laws.Presented in conjunction with Levine Museum’s series Destination Freedom: Civil Rights Struggles Then and Now, and in partnership with WFAE 90.7 fm. The exhibit will run from October 11th until February 22nd, 2015.
More information on the exhibit:
Levine Museum hosts a traveling exhibit from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) featuring photographs by Spider Martin (1939-2003). An Alabama native who grew up outside of Birmingham, Martin and his Civil Rights photographs would help change the world before he reached the age of 25.
Martin was a young but seasoned photographer for the Birmingham News at the time of the Selma march. His work in Selma in 1965 appeared in national and international publications, including Life, Time, Look, The Saturday Evening Post, Der Spiegel, Rampart, Paris Match and many others.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. credited Martin’s photographs with playing a major role in the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 when he said, “Spider, we could have marched, we could have protested forever, but if it weren’t for guys like you, it would have been for nothing. The whole world saw your pictures. That’s why the voting rights act was passed.”
Selma to Montgomery: A March for the Right to Vote has traveled to Washington, D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans and Montgomery. The exhibit is curated and circulated by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and made possible, in part, by the City of Birmingham and contributions to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Corporate Campaign. The images are part of BCRI’s permanent collection, and the institute has worked to preserve and, periodically, share them with the public.
The exhibit consists of 48 black and white images and interpretive material on the Selma to Montgomery march. It is presented at Levine Museum as part of Destination Freedom: Civil Rights Struggles Then and Now and is supported by media partner WFAE 90.7 FM.
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