Behold the People: R. C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949–1961
Exhibition
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. This exhibition was created by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, and is presented in partnership with the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. For more information, contact the Dallas Historical Society at 214.421.4500.
June 19–August 15, 2015
Map
Melba Theater, by R. C. Hickman, 1955. R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.