1. RC Hickman was further involved with The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, documenting inequality in Dallas, Texas, such as photographing the Dallas school segregation for the NAACP's court cases.
27 Facts About RC Hickman
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RC Hickman's work tends to convey the everyday life of African-American citizens during the Civil Rights Movement era, specifically documenting subjects such as schools, universities, clubs and restaurants.
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Rufus Cornelius RC Hickman was born in 1922 in Mineola, Texas.
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RC Hickman began attending Tillotson College in Austin, which was a senior college established for African American students in 1881.
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RC Hickman was drafted to the USArmy on the outset of World War II.
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RC Hickman spent time in numerous roles across the photojournalism industry, including overseeing distribution of newspapers in his role as a circulation manager, for the Dallas Star Post.
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RC Hickman spent 12 years in this role at the Dallas Star Post, which allowed him to gain an important understanding of the journalism industry, and further his photography skills, providing photographic services to the newspaper to use for coverage in articles.
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RC Hickman spent time working in sales of newspapers and advertising, utilising the skills he acquired selling papers at a young age.
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Many of RC Hickman's photographs were used in an array of African-American Magazine publications, used as either lifestyle photographs or for Civil Rights articles.
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RC Hickman spent much of his photographic career working for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was at the forefront of the American Civil Rights movement during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Littlejohn and RC Hickman documented very similar events in their respective cities, as many of the notable individuals would tour both cities.
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RC Hickman documented individuals such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe Louis and Ella Fitzgerald on numerous occasions.
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RC Hickman was assigned to photograph a mock lynching at the school in which RC Hickman documented the poor state of the segregated schools, when he was pursued by individuals involved in the lynching and had to flee the scene.
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The pursuit continued from Mansfield until RC Hickman reached Fort Worth.
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The book compiles images from RC Hickman's time documenting Dallas' Civil Rights Movement, donated to the university in 1985.
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The photographs range from the 1950s to the 1960s, the time in which RC Hickman was most active in Civil Rights Movement.
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RC Hickman's photography tends to take a form of displaying the everyday lives of African American individuals in an environment of injustice, whether this is at night clubs, schools, universities or at restaurants.
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Many photographers during this time illustrated protests and acts of violence in the effort for racial equality RC Hickman's portrayal of everyday life is a less prevalent theme.
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The style of photography adopted by RC Hickman has since become important in recounting the breadth of the Civil Rights Movement.
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RC Hickman retired from his photography career in the 1970s and began his endeavor into retail management.
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Alongside this, RC Hickman shared his experiences and advice on photography through an array of workshops and lectures across schools in Dallas.
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RC Hickman received numerous recognitions for his work during the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on the role his photography played in Dallas.
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RC Hickman's work archived at The Briscoe Center for American History has been categorized into subjects with the largest number of photographs taken, including schools, funerals, clubs, colleges and news, signifying RC Hickman's general style and subjects during the Civil Rights Movement era.
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The Briscoe Center's archive of RC Hickman's work has been coupled with online exhibitions of RC Hickman and Calvin Littlejohn's photography.
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RC Hickman's work has been on exhibition at the Dallas Historical Society, a non-for-profit organization that aims to convey and uphold artefacts of Dallas' history.
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RC Hickman's work was displayed during Black History Month in 2019 at the Dallas City Hall and the Briscoe Center.
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RC Hickman died on December 1,2007, in his home in Oak Cliff, Dallas.