Featured photo for exhibit PEOPLE GET READY

PEOPLE GET READY

THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar, is pleased to present "People Get Ready", a major exhibition of 55 dramatic photographs from significant human rights struggles in history. The exhibition opens with a public reception Friday, July 6, 5 - 7 PM, and continues through September 23.

The belief that everyone, by virtue of her or his humanity, is entitled to certain human rights is fairly new. Its roots, however, lie in earlier traditions and documents of many cultures; however, it took the catalyst of World War II to propel human rights onto the global stage and into the global conscience.

Yet, every day we still see images of people struggling for their freedom; their right to live without fear, their right to speak and their right to worship the god of their choice. In the past several months, we have watched as citizens in Egypt, Libya, and Syria took to the streets to air their politics and struggle for freedom; and here in the United States, the Occupy Wall Street movement championed the cause of economic and social rights. The struggle around the world is unrelenting. Dedicated photojournalists have been, and continue to be, there to bring the voices and the images of the people as they rise to fight for basic human rights. (According to the Committee To Protect Journalists, 19 journalists have been killed in 2012 and 179 are currently in jail world-wide.)

Photographers in this exhibition illustrate the power of photography to inform, persuade, enlighten and enrich the viewer's life. Many of the photographs featured in this exhibition not only moved the public at the time of their publication, and continue to have an impact today, but set social and political changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think.

A lone man stops a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square, 1989 Beijing, China<br/>
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989<br/>
The Struggle Begins, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989<br/>
Anti-Government Protest, Seoul, Korea 1994<br/>
American Nazi Party Demonstration, District of Columbia Stadium, Washington, DC, October 1, 1961<br/>
Sam Mali at gravesites, South Africa, 1982<br/>
Freedom Riders Julia Aaron & David Dennis sitting on board interstate bus as they and 25 others are escorted by 2 National Guardsmen holding bayonets, on way from Montgomery, AL to Jackson, MS, May, 1961 - Photo by Paul Schutzer<br/>
Martin Luther King Marching for Voting Rights with John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy, Selma, 1965<br/>
Freedom Rider Jerome Smith, Mississippi, 1965<br/>
Brown Sisters Walk to School, Topeka, Kansas, 1953. Photograph by Carl Iwasaki<br/>
Federal troops escorting African American students to school during integration, September, 1957<br/>
Members of the Little Rock Nine during legal hearings on their attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, September 1957<br/>
Segregationists, St. Augustine, Florida, 1964<br/>
Sheriff Rainey, outside the church, on the day of James Chaney's funeral, Mississippi, August 7, 1964<br/>
Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard, of the United Klans of America, Alabama, 1964<br/>
Birmingham Protests, May 1963<br/>
Martin Luther King, Jr. Arrested on a Loitering Charge, Montgomery, September 3, 1958<br/>
Rosa Parks, Selma March, 1965<br/>
Mother Teresa, India,1978<br/>
Gandhi walking with close advisors and family members, India, 1946<br/>
The Kennedy campaign travels through the Watts section of Los Angeles on the last day before the primary, 1968<br/>
A Pioneer Organizer Of The Office Workers' Union, Wall Street and Broad Street, NYC, 1936<br/>
Cesar Chavez, California, 1974<br/>
Demonstrators in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) Strike, 1937 (Time Inc.)<br/>
Actors Danny Kaye, June Havoc and Humphrey Bogart, with wife, actress Lauren Bacall sitting beside him, listening intently a hearing regarding communists in the film industry, 1947<br/>
Photographing protestors at Anti-Nixon rally, Washington, DC, 1968 <br/>
Kent Courtney, National Chair of the Conservative Society of America, 1964<br/>
Buchenwald Prisoners, 1945 (Time Inc.)<br/>
Simon Wiesenthal revisiting Mauthausen Concentration Camp<br/>
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Geneva, September, 1933<br/>
Barney, of Barney's Beanery, West Hollywood, CA, 1964<br/>
Washington Square Park, New York, 1964<br/>
Gay Liberation, Hollywood, 1971<br/>
Mildred and Richard Loving, King and Queen County, Virginia in April 1965<br/>
Equal Rights March, Washington, DC, 1993<br/>
Women's Rights March, New York, 1970<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Pro-Choice Rally, Washington, DC, April, 1989<br/>
.John Olson: Women marching in New York at the Women’s Strike for Equality, a march in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, August 26, 1970<br/>Please contact Gallery for price
Women's Liberation, New York, August, 1970<br/>
Women's Liberation March, New York, 1970<br/>
Women's Liberation March, Gloria Steinhem, New York, 1970<br/>
Women's Liberation March, Bella Abzug, New York, 1970<br/>
Afghan Woman with Diploma, Kabul, Afghanistan 1998<br/>
Under Taliban: Widow's Bakery, Afghanistan, 1998<br/>
Cairo, Egypt — February 4, 2011<br/>
Cairo, Egypt — February 8, 2011<br/>
Cairo, Egypt — February 1, 2011<br/>
Untitled, Libya, 2011<br/>
An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator is arrested on Broadway and Wall Street on November 17, 2011<br/>
Occupy Wall Street Demonstration, New York, 2011<br/>
Occupy Wall Street Demonstration, New York 2011<br/>
Occupy Protest, New York, 2011<br/>
NATO Protest, Chicago, 2012<br/>