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Book SynopsisFifty years after Martin Luther King Jr’s death - and at a time when race relations and social justice are again at the forefront of America’s consciousness - this book expands on a Frist Art Museum exhibition to present approximately one hundred photographs that document an important period in Nashville’s struggle for racial equality.
Trade Review[Nashville's] stories about the orderly desegregation of schools and the peaceful desegregation of lunch counters and the benign treatment of black people by the white people in power? That's all a myth. 'We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights and the Nashville Press, 1957–1968,' a set of photographs assembled by the Frist Art Museum, exposes such mythmaking for what it is. . . . Copies of the companion volume to the photography exhibit will be distributed to all branches of the Nashville Public Library and to every public school in the city, and all members of the Tennessee General Assembly will receive a copy to deliver to the public libraries in their own communities. Here's hoping they pause to take a look first. There's a truth in these photographs that many of them have likely never seen before."—Margaret Renkl,
New York Times"This book, the catalog of an exhibition at Frist Art Museum in Nashville, captures a decade of everyday bravery and trauma as recorded in photographs, drawn from city archives, by Nashville photojournalists."—Holland Cotter,
New York Times
