CW: violence
In Los Angeles in 1963, days after “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, protestors form a chain of outstretched limbs. The threatening tips of dark leather shoes surround them.
With their bodies, the protestors defy the threats around them in an act of refusal and a demand for justice.
Charles Brittin’s photographs are visual testaments to Los Angeles during the Civil Rights and Black Power Eras.
Dive into his archives, housed at the Getty Research Institute, at the
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