Revolutionary Anger And The Struggle For Human Equality

Daniel Drache, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director David Clifton, Research Associate Marc Froese, Research Associate

A Digital Report From The Counter-Publics Working Group

Please Send Comments To drache@yorku.caOctober 2004

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Fight The Power

US Civil Rights Struggles Have Produced Some Of The Most Searing Images In The 20th Century’s Struggle For Human Dignity

And Racial Equality

Systemic Racism

Eye-cons Rise Above Photojournalism With Their Timeless Message Of Anger,

Defiance And Justice. Even Decades Later The Viewer Is Caught Up In This

Epic Struggle.

The US Civil Rights Movement Was Impatient, Audacious, Innovative And Militant. It Was A Mass Movement Of Radical Black And White Activists Who Connected The Poor With The Affluent.

Forced Desegregation In Little Rock

Military Occupation Of “Ole Miss”

Riding For Freedom In The Summer Of 1961

The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike For Basic Economic Justice, A Turning Point For American

Civil Rights – February 1968

Reality TV: Media, Violence And Civil Rights

Civil Rights Activists Aggressively Exploited The Power Of Iconic Images In The Battle For Public Opinion. Photos Of Young People Facing Down Attack Dogs And Fire Hoses Galvanized Ordinary Americans.

Power To The People March On Washington August 28th , 1963

Between 1964 – 1967, 43 Die In Race Riots In Detroit, 34 In Watts, 23 In Newark. Thousands Injured In Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Baltimore,

Philadelphia And Harlem. 52 Die In The L.A. Riots Of 1992.

Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X Attain

Heroic Stature At Home And Abroad

Two Radical Visions: Malcolm X and Martin

Luther King Jr. At The Height Of Their Powers

Militancy And Confrontation: The Nation of Islam and The Black Panther Party

“The Great Society” Links Race And Poverty In The Struggle For Substantive Equality In The U.S.

LBJ Declares “Unconditional War On Poverty In America”.

The Signing Of The Civil Rights Act July 2, 1964

Malcolm X Murdered At Age 40

Martin Luther King Jr.Murdered At Age 39

World Anger Refocused on ‘The Banality Of Evil’ And The Horror Of Human Rights

Abuses as a Global Phenomenon

The Sharpeville And Mai Lai Massacres In Vietnam And South Africa Redefine Civil

Rights As An Inescapable Global Responsibility

March 21, 196069 Killed

March 16, 1968Over 300 Killed

The ANC’s Struggle Against Apartheid Links Racial Equality And Human Rights

The Scourge Of Terrorism

The Bush Revolution: Regime Change, Pre-emptive Strikes, Unilateralism

Winning At Any Cost: Shocking Human Rights Abuses At Abu Ghraib

From Rwanda To Darfur: The Crime Of Global Indifference

International Human Rights: Our Responsibility To Protect? Always.

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