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    Beginning February 21, 2011, the Commerce City Hall will host an exhibition of photographs by R.C. Hickman titled "Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949–1961". The photographs document daily life in the African American community in Dallas during the 1950s, which was largely invisible to white Americans at the time despite their accomplishments. The exhibition is one of several supported by Humanities Texas that will be on display in Commerce and Greenville, Texas through March 31, 2011 focusing on Black history and culture.

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    Beginning February 21, 2011, the Commerce City Hall will host an exhibition of photographs by R.C. Hickman titled "Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949–1961". The photographs document daily life in the African American community in Dallas during the 1950s, which was largely invisible to white Americans at the time despite their accomplishments. The exhibition is one of several supported by Humanities Texas that will be on display in Commerce and Greenville, Texas through March 31, 2011 focusing on Black history and culture.

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    Beginning February 21, 2011, the Commerce City Hall will host an exhibition of photographs by R.C. Hickman titled "Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949–1961". The photographs document daily life in the African American community in Dallas during the 1950s, which was largely invisible to white Americans at the time despite their accomplishments. The exhibition is one of several supported by Humanities Texas that will be on display in Commerce and Greenville, Texas through March 31, 2011 focusing on Black history and culture.

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    Beginning February 21, 2011, the Commerce City Hall will host an exhibition of photographs by R.C. Hickman titled "Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949–1961". The photographs document daily life in the African American community in Dallas during the 1950s, which was largely invisible to white Americans at the time despite their accomplishments. The exhibition is one of several supported by Humanities Texas that will be on display in Commerce and Greenville, Texas through March 31, 2011 focusing on Black history and culture.

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    DATE: February 10, 2011

    For Immediate Release


    CONTACT: Shannon Carter, shannon_carter@tamu-commerce.edu

    “Black Dallas” Comes to Rural, Northeast Texas:


    A Humanities Texas Exhibit in Celebration of Black History Month

    Melba  Theater  by  R.  C.  Hickman,  1955.  R.  C.  Hickman  Photographic  Archive  (VN  85‐43‐000279a).  The 
    Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. 

    [Commerce, Texas]—Beginning February 21, 2011, at the main lobby of the Commerce City
    Hall, the Converging Literacies Center (CLiC @ Texas A&M-Commerce) will present “Behold
    the People: R. C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949–1961,” an exhibition by the
    Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, presented in partnership with
    Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Support for
    “Behold the People” was provided in part by a grant from Humanities Texas.

    R. C. Hickman was a Dallas photographer whose thousands of images produced from 1949 to
    1961 document aspects of life in an African American community in Texas. His photographs
    depict a community largely invisible to white Americans—thoroughly a part of mainstream
    America by virtue of accomplishment and lifestyle but excluded from it because of race.

    Mr. Hickman worked as a commercial portrait photographer, a photojournalist for several black
    newspapers in Dallas, a freelance photographer for national black publications such as Jet, Sepia
    and Ebony and a photographer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
    People (NAACP). His images reveal his awareness of a community within which individuals
    survive, grow and understand themselves.

    The exhibition will be available to the public from (February 21, 2011) to (March 31, 2011).
    According to project director Shannon Carter (Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M-
    Commerce), several additional Humanities Texas exhibitions will be on display in Commerce,
    including “Jasper, Texas: Healing of a Community in Crisis” (at Gee Library, Texas A&M-
    Commerce) and “Literary East Texas: An Exhibition Honoring 25 East Texas Writers” (Hall of
    Languages, Texas A&M-Commerce). The fourth exhibition, “Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and
    Latinas of World War II,” will be on display at the Audie Murphy Cotton Museum in Greenville,
    Texas. All exhibitions will be free and open to the public from 2/21/2011 until 3/31/2011. Carter
    is Co-Director of CLiC.

    For more information about viewing hours visit CLiC online at


    http://convergingliteraciescenter.wordpress.com/

    Humanities Texas develops and supports diverse programs across the state, including
    lectures, oral history projects, teacher institutes, museum exhibitions and documentary
    films. For more information, please visit Humanities Texas online at
    http://www.humanitiestexas.org or call 512.440.1991.

    Contact:
    Shannon Carter, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M-Commerce
    Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu

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