During the 1960s, people of various races, religions, ages, genders, and classes contributed to an integrated civil rights movement—in Connecticut and around the nation. This exhibition shares stories of Connecticut freedom workers who supported the movement.
upcoming exhibitions
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Connecticut Freedom Workers: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement
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Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March by Stephen Somerstein
This exhibit features the stunning and historic photographs of Stephen Somerstein, documenting the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March in March of 1965. Somerstein was a student in City College of New York’s night school and Picture Editor of his student newspaper when he traveled to Alabama to document the march.
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