How could I live here if otherwise?
Ginger Williams St. Louis, MO If it had not happened how could one in good conscience live in this country?
Discovering, remembering and filtering historical resentments.
Richard R Clarke West New York, NJ This is what I see happening to people over and over again, no matter what their race, color...
Constant conversation with my radical mom.
Alexis Danzig New York City, NY Manhattan This exhibit moved me to tears. I am so proud of the Brooklyn Museum, delighted to see the...
Rulership does not belong to man
Megonon New York City, NY History has proved that mankind cannot under any circumstances good/bad..rule each other fairly..there will always be prejudices/favoritism/biases..thats the common psychcology...
Many fingers needed to hold tomorrow
William Hood Vancouver, B.C., Canada A successful tomorrow requires humanity to be connected as brothers and sisters for our children and grandchildren to survive and...
Speak English We Are In America
Amanda Denise Ballantyne New York City, NY The Bronx I was at a dinner when a group ,mid 60s/early70s (age), of Caucasians were eating their...
I am grace, power and inextinguishable
Ryan Brooke Taylor, New York City, NY. Collected from: WITNESS: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties at The Brooklyn Museum My experience as a...
Saddened, inspired, still far to go
Jeff Schaffer Los Angeles, CA Seeing this exhibit reminds me of the sacrifices made by our predecessors, and inspires me to continue working for a...
Allows me to celebrate my birthday
Nathaniel Hunt Glen Burnie, MD My parents are an interracial couple. I am a homosexual young man. And today is my 23rd birthday. Without the...
Art in the face of racism
Christopher McBride New York City, NY Brooklyn Seeing that exhibit really brought about a strong reaction emotionally from myself. As a musician, seeing the visual...
We must preserve our nation’s history.
Vicki Vardaman Lynn, IN When I took my 4 year old grandson to the Indianapolis Children’s museum’s exhibit of Ruby Bridge’s school and the reproduction...
Colour, power, difference, struggle, dignity, aesthetics
G. Arunima New Dehli, India I am visiting from India, and for many of us the civil rights movement, and the debates and politics of...
