Abstract
The superb exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, curated by Teresa A. Carbone and Kellie Jones at the Brooklyn Museum, features the work of sixty-five of those artists alongside of a video recording of Simone performing "Mississippi Goddam." Powerfully, the anthem's forceful challenge to the illogics of white supremacy and racial violence reverberates across the various photographs, paintings, sculptures, graphics, music, and video presented in the exhibition.