Elmhurst Art Museum

As the nation faces a historic moment of social justice reawakening, the Elmhurst Art Museum announces a new exhibition that reflects on historical and contemporary responses to fair housing in the Chicago area.

“In Focus: The Chicago Freedom Movement and The Fight for Fair Housing,” will be on view at the museum from March 4 through June 20.

Related programming will begin in December and continue through spring 2021, including the opening of the complementary new exhibition, “There is Black Housing in the Future: Equitable Public Housing as Memorial,” in the McCormick House, adjacent to the museum, from Dec. 3 through May 8.

A virtual discussion about the Chicago Freedom Movement will be held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18.

The In Focus exhibit features some of the first color documentary photographs taken of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as other Chicago civil rights leadership and organized public marches. All 32 photos were taken by 85-year-old photographer, activist and Wheaton resident Bernard Kleina and provide context for the 1965-67 movement led by King, James Bevel and Al Raby, who fought against systemic racism and segregation of the Chicago area and inspired the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

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