Friday, June 20, 2008

Can you imagine what it must have been like to be them?

Imagine ...
A 1956 photograph by Joe Scherschel, taken in Texarkana, Tex., shows an almost Norman Rockwell-esque young black couple, leaning on a car hood with their schoolbooks. The horizon is a line of menacing white protesters.
Photo: Joe Scherschel, via High Museum of Art.

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