Doing Democracy on the South Bethlehem Greenway

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Latest in a series of posts in the wake of the George Floyd murder

South Bethlehem Greenway @ Buchanan

Danny Lyon, “As Demonstrators Block Traffic to Protest Segregation,” 1963

Commentary by Grace Vigorito and Tracie Dinh

Atlanta 1963. People protesting segregation by blocking traffic are met with a mob aiming at disrupting the protest. An unknown uninvolved woman jumps in to confront one of the mob and voice her support for the Blacks. She joins the protest when she is taunted with “If you feel that way, why don’t you just marry one of them?”

Which invites a Sunday morning reflection on what in the way of anti-racist acts we have done lately.

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Doing Democracy: Photography from the George Stephanopoulos Collection

September 1, 2020 – May 21, 2021
LUAG Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center
View reproductions on the Greenway between New and Buchanan

Published by The Bethlehem Gadfly

Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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