July 2, 2024 – October 20, 2024
LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, Texas
Great Hall
The LBJ Library is open to the public. Admission tickets must be bought online in advance. For details, please go to https://www.lbjlibrary.org/visit.
To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the Briscoe Center for American History and the LBJ Presidential Library present the exhibition Struggle for Justice: Civil Rights Photography from the Briscoe Center for American History.Located in the LBJ Library’s Great Hall, the exhibit showcases iconic photos from the Briscoe Center’s collections. Through photographs that document life in the Jim Crow era, portraits of the movement’s leaders, and coverage of activism—as well as the violent resistance it often met—these images brought intimate eyewitness views of the struggle for civil rights to the public.
The history of American social justice movements is a major collection strength of the Briscoe Center. The center’s growing resources include a wide range of materials related to the civil rights movement that provide both visual and documentary evidence of the organizations and individuals who worked for racial justice and equality. The exhibit highlights the perspective of photojournalists who bore witness to the struggle for civil rights. Selected from among the Briscoe Center’s extensive photojournalism holdings, these images represent a visual record of the challenges, flashpoints, and achievements of the civil rights movement.
