Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-exhibit-focuses-on-civil-rights-movement-images Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Jeffrey Brown takes a look at a new exhibit exploring the Civil Rights movement through photographs, including some that have never been seen before, and finds the stories behind the powerful images. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: Perhaps no social movement in American history is so tied up in the power of the image as the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s.When Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy took the first desegregated bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956, when young men and women picketed a North Carolina courthouse in 1961, when protesters were set on by police dogs in Birmingham in 1963, cameras were there to record the moment.Photographers got right into the action, often at personal risk, so their work could reach the front pages of American newspapers the next day.This mix of journalism, activism, and art is celebrated in "Road to Freedom," put together by Atlanta's High Museum to mark the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, some 250 photographs that both document a time and show the power of images to move people then and now.Curator Julian Cox.JULIAN COX, curator of photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta: Photography captures time and has this extraordinary capacity to freeze an historical moment and to provide information, evidence, narrative suggestion that is a very powerful — becomes a very powerful thing. JEFFREY BROWN: The London-born Cox came to Atlanta three years ago and searched high and low for photographs that would build up the museum's existing civil rights era collection.He found never-before-shown works, like this sequence of photos of the firebombing of a bus bearing "Freedom Riders" in Anniston, Ala., in 1961. They'd been stored in a law firm for decades as potential evidence.And images that moved through time: a photo by Danny Lyon from the 1963 march on Washington that became a call-to-action poster and then turned up in another photo later taken in rural Mississippi.Then there are iconic works: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery in 1956, taken by an unknown photographer. TEACHER: Somebody tell me about Rosa Parks. What do you know about her? STUDENT: She was the first black lady to sit in the front of the bus. TEACHER: That's right.