LeRoy Henderson
American, born 1936
First Anti-Vietnam War March
INV-2216
LeRoy Henderson
American, born 19361967
First Anti-Vietnam War March
LeRoy Henderson American, born 1936 →20th Centuryphotographphotography
Date
1967
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 20.6 × 30.5 cm (8 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 36 cm (11 × 14 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Artworkers Retirement Society
After early studies in fine art, LeRoy Henderson turned to photojournalism in the 1960s, eventually contributing to magazines such as Black Enterprise, Essence, Jet, Newsweek, and New York. He shot this photograph at an antiwar protest organized by the Black United Action Front in which participants, led by civil rights activists Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick, marched from Harlem to Central Park. In printed and shouted slogans such as the one seen here, marchers linked the war in Vietnam to struggles for justice at home.
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