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Raymond Ward
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“And Freedom For All: Martin Luther King Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement” Opens January 10, 2008 at the DuSable Museum
Chicago, IL. (15 December 2007)CIn celebration of the life of the “drum major for justice,” the DuSable Museum of African American History will present “AND FREEDOM FOR ALL: Martin Luther King Jr. & The Civil Rights Movement.” The exhibition opens on Thursday, January 10, 2008 and will continue through Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the Museum which is located at 740 East 56th Place (57th Street at South Cottage Grove Avenue) in Chicago’s Washington Park.
Organizers and program speakers, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Mathew Ahmann, Whitney Young, Floyd McKissick, John Lewis, Walter Reuther, Rabbi Joachim Prinz and Eugene Carson Blake led the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” where Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. This exhibition documents the story of that event.
“AND FREEDOM FOR ALL” contains fifty (50) unpublished photographs from the archives of LOOK Magazine photographer Stanley Tretick and depicts the March participants surrounding the Lincoln Memorial; African Americans participating in the March; and President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson at the White House, U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King, Jr., and organizers.
Photojournalist, Stanley Tretick was born in Baltimore and raised in Washington, D.C. Trained as a photographer in the Marine Corps, he served in the Pacific during World War II and then covered D.C. as a tough-talking cameraman. Following a stint as a copy boy for The Washington Post, he joined Acme Newspictures and photographed combat during the Korean War. Later Tretick moved to United Press, documenting Capitol Hill and the Presidential campaigns of the fifties. The agency, soon known as United Press International, sent him on the road with John F. Kennedy in 1969; the photographer befriended the candidate and made many of his best pictures during this time. When Kennedy took office, Tretick was given extensive access to the White House and LOOK Magazine hired him to cover the President and his family.
Stanley Tretick died in July of 1999 at the age of 77, just days after John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
“AND FREEDOM FOR ALL: Martin Luther King, Jr., & The Civil Rights Movement” copyright, Stanley Tretick, from the exhibition “And Freedom For All” organized by ArtVision Exhibitions, LLC.
The DuSable Museum of African American History presentation of “AND FREEDOM FOR ALL” is made possible the Chicago Park District, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs CityArtsIII Program, United Airlines, Clear Channel Radio and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
The DuSable Museum of African American History is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM and Sunday from 12:00 NOON until 5:00 PM. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for students and senior citizens, $1 for children ages 6 through 12 and children under the age of 6 are free. Sundays are FREE to all courtesy of Bank of America FREE SUNDAYS. The Museum may be reached by CTA buses # 3, # 4, and # 55 and parking is also available on the premises.
The DuSable Museum of African American History, one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the country, has been dedicated to the collection, preservation, interpretation and dissemination of the history and culture of Africans and Americans of African descent for 46 years. For more information on the Museum and its programs, please call (773) 947-0600 or you may visit our website at http://www.dusablemuseum.org.
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