US | Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

By Mohamed Keita

Photo: Bud Lee, “Life,” July 28, 1967

Lest we forget, it was the gruesome images of police brutality in places like Montgomery or Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 that brought a human rights crisis into worldview. President John F. Kennedy would disclose to aides that he had been make sick by a New York Times front page photograph showing a police dog chewing on the stomach of a teenager.

The critical contribution of the image to the struggle for equality and justice is on view at the International Center of Photography in For all the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights—a multimedia exhibition contemplating the power of mass media in shaping, for better or worse, the attitudes of our society. You put up the money required for bail. You’ve followed all of the restrictions of your bail. You feel that you have done everything right in this situation. So, when do you get bail money back if innocent? It is important to remember that this post is regarded with bail money that was paid fully in cash, also known as a cash bond.

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