In May 1961, photographer Bruce Davidson joined a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi. Over the next few years, with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Davidson continued to document the south during the Civil Rights Movement, including the five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, with Martin Luther King, Jr. A new exhibition of Davidson's Civil Rights Movement photographs, which were also published in Davidson's 2002 book Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965, opens tomorrow night at Howard Greenberg Gallery. The show is up through July 6th -- preview images from the show below.
Time of Change (two women at lunch counter), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (Damn the Defiant), 1963. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (man dragged by police), 1964. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (Damn the Defiant), 1963. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (man dragged by police), 1964. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr., Mrs. King, and Rosa Parks during the Selma March), 1965. Copyright Bruce
Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (hecklers taunting the Freedom Riders, Montgomery, Alabama), 1961. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (black woman and National Guard soldiers), 1961. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (black children walking by white children), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery, Alabama), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (couple dancing by jukebox), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (three bridesmaids), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (nannies with children), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (hecklers taunting the Freedom Riders, Montgomery, Alabama), 1961. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (black woman and National Guard soldiers), 1961. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (black children walking by white children), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery, Alabama), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (couple dancing by jukebox), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (three bridesmaids), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.
Time of Change (nannies with children), 1962. Copyright Bruce Davidson. Courtesy Howard Greenberg, New York.