Franklynn Peterson

press release: Social Justice Issues Come Alive

Franklynn Peterson Lecture August 18th at 7pm

Franklynn Peterson displays his 50 years of recording injustice with his camera and he'll reveal how he personally was able to do so, often by risking life and limb.

Nearly 50 of his large framed prints are hanging at the Sequoya Library showing his civil rights activism, advocacy for unbiased justice by police, help to house and feed the homeless, and some of the people involved in all of the above.

This exhibit focuses on people locked out of a decent life, and about the few who have done something for them, such as Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer and Mr. John Evers (NAACP activist and executive and brother of Mr. Medgar Evers who was slain in his driveway getting out of his car), and the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana that came back from the Vietnam War and took up arms to keep their African American neighborhoods safe from Ku Klux Klan invasions.

Peterson's "Invisible Child" photo was the first art you saw if you attended the recent "Justified Art" exhibit in Gallery One of the Overture Center. His works have hung in a few dozen galleries from coast to coast and are frequently included in fund raisers for good causes in Madison.

Peterson will present a major piece of history that is seldom covered, and never covered with such close-to-the-action authenticity. Don't miss an opportunity to hear a front- line account from a soldier in the continuing battle for justice in the United States.

Sequoya Library is at 4340 Tokay Blvd (corner of Midvale and Tokay). The exhibition ends August 31. The lecture is at 7 pm August 18th.