The title of Art Shay’s new photo exhibit, “Troublemakers,” was deliberately chosen to play with audience expectations, says Erik Gellman, the Roosevelt University history professor who curated it. Visitors may come in expecting to see images of hooligans. Instead they’ll find photos of scenes from the freedom movements of the 1950s and ’60s as they played out in Chicago.
This includes one of his favorite pictures in the show, a 1956 shot of a circle of people holding hands at dusk, singing in protest against housing segregation in north-suburban Deerfield.
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