Pennsylvania College Gets 3,000-Work Gift Rich in Civil Rights Movement Photography

New York financier Bennett J. Goodman has gifted a collection of civil rights movement–era photography worth $10 million to Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The collection will be housed at the college’s Kirby Art Center.
The gift includes more than 1,600 photographs taken by Associated Press photographers such as John Rous, Stephan Shames, and Robert S. Oaks taken between the 1950s and 1980s. Among the events pictured in these photographs are race riots across the U.S. in