Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
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Bibliography
Brooklyn Public Library Special Collections:
• Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Collection:
• Unknown photographer, “La Marcha Negra Sobre Washington,” 1963.
Harvard University Library Special Collections:
• Flyer for “March for Freedom,” December 14.
New York University Library Special Collections:
• Unknown illustrator, “Young Sudanese Women March with Rifles in Khartoum,” National SNCC Monthly Newspaper, 1969.
• Unknown photographer, “MLK's Dream Lives - 20th Anniversary of March on Washington,” The National Guardian, 1983.
• Unknown photographer, “Police Brutality Protest,” Liberation News Service, undated.
• Unknown photographer, The National Guardian, “The Ultimate Tragedy Was Not…” 1988.
• Unknown photographer, “We Have a Dream - MLK Day in LA,” The National Guardian, 1983.
Northeastern University Library Special Collections:
• Flyer for “Martin Luther King and Boston,” April 23, 1965.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs, and Prints Division:
• Sengstacke, Robert, “Participants of the Memphis Garbage Workers' Protest March,” 1968.
• Unknown photographer, “Conference delegates protesting Jim Crow university in Houston,” 1947.
• Unknown photographer, “Delegates from the National Association of Colored Women,” undated.
• Unknown photographer, “Jim Crow Must Go,” 1960.
Exhibitions
Syntropy. 21 Nov.-20 Dec. 2025, Praise Shadows Art Galley, Brookline, MA.When Civilizations Heal. 6 May-17 Aug. 2025, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ.

