March to Freedom

Past Exhibitions | Feb, 21 2015 9:00AM - Apr, 12 2015 5:00PM

LBJ Library photo by Lauren Gerson #DIG13715-012.

The March to Freedom exhibition honored the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama voting rights protest marches and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act. The exhibition featured photographs from the collection of The Briscoe Center for American History by renowned photographer James “Spider” Martin, documents from the LBJ Library Archives collection, and photographs from the April 2014 Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library.

Exhibition Photos

LBJ Library photo by Lauren Gerson #DIG13715-012.
LBJ Library photo by Lauren Gerson #DIG13715-037.
LBJ Library photo by Lauren Gerson #DIG13715-046.
LBJ Library photo by Lauren Gerson #DIG13715-020.

Civil Rights Summit Photos

President Barack Obama views a replica of the Oval Office at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 10, 2014.
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