Pictures by William S. Dotson and Maurice W. Strider

Exhibition Dates TBD

The University of Kentucky Art Museum is organizing the primary museum exhibition of pictures by William S. Dotson and Maurice W. Strider for Fall 2029. During the Civil Rights Movement in Lexington, Kentucky, the 2 photographers competed to see who may create the very best document of the African American group at this significant second. Strider realized a social perform for artwork from Aaron Douglass and different professors at Fisk University, the place Strider studied earlier than returning to his hometown Lexington, Kentucky in 1934 to show artwork at Dunbar High School. William S. Dotson graduated from the native HBCU, Kentucky State University, earlier than transferring to Lexington in 1938. Dotson turned president of the native chapter of the NAACP and was concerned with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Dotson realized to be a photographer as a part of his work for the Domestic Life and Accident Insurance Company, and he used his expertise to advocate for civil rights, photographing native protests in addition to the 1963 March on Washington and different nationwide gatherings. Strider and Dotson took pictures for households in Lexington in addition to serving as workers photographers for the Louisville Defender and Pittsburgh Courier. Our exhibition of their work will deal with the function of images in advancing civil and human rights, particularly within the mid-twentieth century in Lexington, Kentucky.

Image credit score: William S. Dotson, [Group of African Americans sitting at a table including William Henry Fouse (1868-1944), Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke Fouse (1875-1952), Pastor of East Second Street Christian Church of Lexington, Kentucky Elder R.L. Saunders, and Emma W. Saunders], Sallie Price Family Papers 2005AV011, Box 4, Item 159, University of Kentucky Special Collections.