Photo: UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER, NEW YORK, NY, 1936. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Visual Materials from the NAACP Records. Flag flying outside the offices of the NAACP on Fifth Avenue, announcing that another lynching had taken place in America.
The South, the land of Jim Crow, was the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-twentieth century. But the movement was much larger than our collective memory holds. It extended throughout the North and across the Midwest, til finally making it to the Pacific, where it broke out along the West coast. Civil Rights was not a regional affair, but one that has been a part of the United States since its very inception—and continues to this very day.
North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South by Mark Speltz (Getty Publications) is a seminal visual history of the movement between 1938 and 1975, documenting the battles that took place in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and many other cities north of the Mason_Dixon Line. Featuring photographs by Crave faves Gordon Parks, Ruth-Marion Baruch, Stephen Shames, Charles “Teenie” Davis, Bob Adelman, and Leonard Freed, among many others, North of Dixie shines light on the largely forgotten chapters of recent American history. Speltz speaks with Crave about the creation of this vital book.
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Photo: Declan Haun, Chicago, IL 1966. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-35427. A woman raises her fist during a Martin Luther King Jr. rally as other marchers pass behind her, Chicago, Illinois, 1966.
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UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER, OLYMPIA, WA, FEBRUARY 1969. Washington State Archives. Armed members of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party standing on the state capitol steps protesting a proposed law limiting the ability to carry firearms in a “manner manifesting an intent to intimidate others.”