'Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties,' at the Brooklyn Museum - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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pjt111 taylor on 21 Mar 14"Can we stop thinking about the civil rights era, or any era, as a saga of a few lionized male leaders, and conceive of it instead as the story of thousands of everyday people going about their unsensational lives until, when necessity calls, they show up, line up, shout out and do without, individually and together, for the good of all, even for a good that they are aware they may never personally experience?"