Protesters
Solo Exhibition South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center South Bend, Indiana Gelatin Silver Prints 2010
Influenced by Eric Etheridge’s documentary Beach of Peace, and the South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center Oral History Project , Paul Guillaume’s “Protesters” confronts the difficult past of racial inequity. Focusing his narrative of the segregated Engman Natatorium in South Bend, Indiana, Guillaume photographs those Civil Rights leaders who fought for equal access . In its’ heated Jim Crow atmosphere of 1931, the division among Engman’s future drove legislation to ban segregated public spaces. Engman, now serving as South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center, also houses Guillaume’s photographs of those who fought for that ideological transformation.
