The Whole World Was Watching July 12, 2011

Television brought the civil rights movement into the livingrooms of everyday Americans in the 1960′s, exposing them to injustices against African Americans in the segregated South. “The Whole World Was Watching” will showcase films that documented their struggle for equality and were instrumental in raising public awareness.

Presented by the Menil Collection and the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Southwest Alternate Media Project in conjunction with the exhibition The Whole World Was Watching: Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil at The Menil Collection and the African American Library at the Gregory School.