Next year will mark 50 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the High Museum is looking back at that tumultuous year in American history with an exhibit of photography called “A Fire That No Water Can Put Out.”
“I really wanted to have his message come through strongly and not have it be somber,” said Erin Nelson, the High Museum’s curatorial assistant and curator of this exhibition. “I wanted to think about how although some consider 1968 a closing bookend to Civil Rights, so much activism in the intervening years has shown the way the Dr. King’s message has endured and that in fact, it was really a beginning.”
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