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context, being drawn to images relating to youth protests, a
common occurrence during those decades. According to her, it felt
as though those photos could have been taken today, both due to
her own generation's activism and the issues being protested, such
as racism and race-related violence.
Hasan Akinyele '23, A , who was enrolled in a Documentary
Photography course, had a slightly different approach. Gravitating
mostly toward Black identities and fashion trends, he selected
a photo by Frank C. Cu in titled
Reverse Freedom Riders, a er
a phrase to describe Black Southerners given bus rides by
segregationist groups to no hern and other states, where they were
promised jobs and housing, but upon arrival, were o en displaced in
the process (a theme echoed today with the US migrant crisis).
Noticing the details of her ou it, Akinyele was pa icularly
Frank C. Cu in, Reverse Freedom Riders, Associated Press, 1962
