Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Movement in Art
Special Collections

Martin Luther King Memorials & Art
Freedom Movement Drawings of Frank Cieciorka
Bits Hayden 1934 Strike Drawings
Charlotta Janssen Paintings

See also:

Freedom Movement in Art Main Collection
Freedom Movement Posters
Pins of the Freedom Movement
Postage Stamps
Jules Feiffer: CRM-Related Cartoons

Martin Luther King Memorials & Art

Martin Luther King National Historic Site, Atlanta
Artist: Louis Delsarte

Homage to King, Atlanta, GA. 1996
Sculptor: Xavier Medina Campeny
Gift from the Spanish host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics to
the host of the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Martin Luther King Memorial, San Francisco, CA
Sculptor Houston Conwill, Poet Estella Majoza and Architect Joseph De Pace.

[Photographer: Not identified]

[Sculptor: Lei Yixin]
Out of the Mountain of Despair, a Stone of Hope
MLK Memorial, Washington DC. 2011

Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ Birthing a Legacy
By Benjamin Keller, 2021
Manchester, CT.

Bust of Martin Luther King by John Woodrow Wilson
United States Capitol rotunda.
Washington, DC.

[© David Blancas]
Mural San Antonio, TX by David Blancas. 2012.
East Side Greater Faith Institutional Church, Martin Luther King Drive.

Martin Luther King Junior and Malcolm X by Maria F. Romero-Creel. 2012.
High school wall mural, location unknown.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Mohandas Gandhi
by Robert Templeton. 1968.

International

Statue of Martin Luther King, Mexico City.

Martin Luther King Street
Liberty Bell Park, Jerusalem, Israel.

[Sculptor: Not identified]
Dr. Martin Luther King.
Imo state Nigeria

Movement Drawings of Frank Cieciorka, SNCC

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
As printed in The Movement newspaper

Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU)

[See also Frank Cieciorka's, The Rape of Lady Liberty ~ A Discussion for more information about and commentary on his work.]

Bits Hayden, 1934 Maritime & General Strike Drawings

These drawings of the interracial 1934 San Francisco maritime and general strike by Bits Hayden are a forerunner of the social justice art that chronicles the Fredom Movemet of the 1950s-1960.

In the depths of the Great Depression...

..longshore and seaman jobs are doled out by racist and corrupt hiring bosses.

Up and down the Westcoast,
from San Diego to Vancouver
Longshoremen, warehouse workers
and sailors organize.

On Strike!

College students rally in support
and are beaten by the cops.
Strikers leap to their defense.

On "Bloody Thursday"
An army of San Francisco police try to break the strike with clubs, gas, guns, and jail.
Open warfare rages on the waterfront.

Two strikers are shot dead by police
More than 100 strikers are injured and wounded.

Rampaging cops raid and destroy union offices.

40,000 strikers and supporters — men, women, children
march up Market Street in a silent funeral procession.
[© Bits Hayded]

A General Strike is called
Withour labor, the city is paralyzed

Victory!
The unions are recognized
Wages are raised and fixed in place
Union-run hiring halls replace corrupt hiring bosses.

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