Stirring scenes of the rhythms of a social revolution where justice and equality struggle to triumph over oppression are now on display at the LBJ Library for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday remembrance.
They are emotional civil rights images all on a simple white canvas covered in striking charcoal blacks and grays.
"This is the president of the United States reaching out to a widow of the most famous civil rights leader and one of the most important figures in latter part of 20th century," says Mark Updegrov
"We have made progress, but there is a stark line between freedom and equality," echoes Brian Washington, an African-American artist and attorney from Cincinnati whose parents attended segregated