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.
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
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Artworkers Retirement Society
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