Dedan Haun, Integration Protest, Monroe, North Carolina, 1961. Collection of the High Museum of Art, purchased with funds from the Massey Charitable Trust and Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection. From the exhibition Picturing the South, 1860 to Present, High Museum of Art, 1996.
1996 Olympic Arts Festival
In William Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom! Shreve McCannon implored his southern-born roommate to “Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”