First Anti-Vietnam War March

Description

After early studies in fine art, LeRoy Henderson turned to photojournalism in the 1960s, eventually contributing to magazines such as Black Enterprise, Essence, Jet, Newsweek, and New York. He shot this photograph at an antiwar protest organized by the Black United Action Front in which participants, led by civil rights activists Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick, marched from Harlem to Central Park. In printed and shouted slogans such as the one seen here, marchers linked the war in Vietnam to struggles for justice at home.

First Anti-Vietnam War March

LeRoy Henderson

1967

Accession Number

221646

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 20.6 × 30.5 cm (8 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 36 cm (11 × 14 3/16 in.)

Classification

photograph

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Artworkers Retirement Society