In the February 15 issue of The New Yorker, there is a piece on the long civil rights movement called “Portfolio.” It is an interactive presentation on the civil rights era, with contemporary portraits by Platon; click on any still photo and it will lead to some combination of historical photographs, interviews, or audio commentary.
David Remnick’s introduction ruminates on President Barack Obama’s relationship to the civil rights movement and eloquently points out that “the struggle, which remains unfinished, is immensely more diverse and complicated than the schoolbook version.” (Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker.)
Our “LCRM project” is intended to reveal some of that diversity and complexity.
Remnick continues, “Indeed, the struggle began with slave rebellions and fugitive churchmen; it has encompassed integrationists and nationalists, nonviolence and armed uprising, churchwomen and secular Third World liberationists, sharecroppers and intellectuals, heroes and eccentrics.”
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