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"At first when I saw this picture, I thought of my grandmother—had she witnessed or endured a similar situation as a younger woman?" says curator Alex Jones. Alex researches historical and visual representations of Black experience within Getty's special collections. He says, "When COVID first hit, just weeks before thousands across the US marched to demand racial justice, I encountered this 1965 image by the photographer Charles Brittin. In the late 1950s as a college student, she and her peers at the Atlanta University Center organized some of the city’s first civil rights and anti-segregation actions." To hear more reflections like this, check out #gettyvoicememos. _ CORE protest at the Los Angeles Federal Building (woman being dragged), 1965, Charles Brittin. The Getty Research Institute

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