Remembering Malcolm X: Reading Images Workshop

IN-PERSON

In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Malcolm X's birth, join us in the Schomburg Center's Photographs and Prints Division for Remembering Malcolm X: Reading Images Workshop. Human rights leader Malcolm X understood visual imagery and power. Led and facilitated by Associate Curator La Tanya S. Autry, this interactive looking and discussion-centered workshop spotlights images of Malcolm X made by Gordon Parks, Robert L. Haggins, Richard Saunders, and other photographers. Workshop participants also will consider excerpts from Malcolm X's speeches and autobiography as well as his cultural legacy.

Space is limited!

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

ACCESSIBLILITY

Accessibility requests can be made by e-mail accessibility@nypl.org.

MALCOLM X 100 Continues

Learn more about the Schomburg Center at schomburg.org and more about the archives of Malcolm X housed at the Schomburg Center:

• Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division
• Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
• Other material across NYPL

About the Photographs and Prints Division

Image:The Barry Gray Show, with Gloster B. Current, Ossie Davis and Malcolm X, 1962. Explore more in the Library's Digital Collections.

The Photographs and Prints Division contains both documentary and fine art photographs, which document the history and culture of people of African descent worldwide as well as the work of photographers of African descent. The collection of over 300,000 images ranges from mid-eighteenth-century graphics to contemporary documentary and art photography. All of the major photographic processes are represented.

Learn more about this division.

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NOTICES

FIRST COME Events are free and open to all, but due to space constraints registration is requested. We generally overbook to ensure a full house.

GUESTS Please note: no food or drinks allowed anywhere in the Schomburg Center.

E-TRANSPORTATION NYPL policy prohibits electric transportation devices (e.g., motorbikes, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards) from being brought into or stored at library sites for any length of time, as this is the best way to keep our spaces & people safe.

AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.

PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at leahdrayton@nypl.org.

Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.