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Road Through Midnight - A Civil Rights Memorial (Hardcover)
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Road Through Midnight - A Civil Rights Memorial (Hardcover)
Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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At first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have
been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in
backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with
muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were
the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though
often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their
importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of African
Americans-activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers,
children and teenagers-were murdered or found, victims of racist
violence. These images are interspersed with oral histories from
victims' families and investigative journalists, as well as pages
from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera. With Road Through
Midnight, the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork,
Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these
commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance
and transform the way we regard both what has happened and what's
happening now-as the fight for civil rights goes on and
memorialization has become the literal subject of contested
cultural and societal ground.
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