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    Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

    Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

    August 23, 2008-January 5, 2009

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    Exhibition sponsors: The State of Tennessee and the Tennessee Arts Commission The Memphis World, an African American newspaper published from 1931 to 1973, chronicled the complexity and variety of its readers' lives. The articles were illustrated with photographs by Ernest Withers, Mark Stansbury, Hooks Brothers Photography, and R. Earl Williams, among others. The subjects in this compelling exhibition range from a speech delivered by Thurgood Marshall in Memphis to women's organizations taking disadvantaged youth to the opera. Behind some of the seemingly ordinary images, however, is evidence of the courage, dignity, and ingenuity that citizens brought to bear on the living conditions in the Jim Crow South.

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    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      August 23, 2008-January 5, 2009

      Times:
      On view during museum hours

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      Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

      1934 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38112

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