THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, February 10, 1997 TAG: 9702080100
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY TERESA ANNAS, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 41 lines
FOR A DECADE, photographer Flip Schulke shadowed Martin Luther King Jr. as he led the civil rights movement through one fiery trial after another.
Schulke, now in his 60s and living in West Palm Beach, Fla., will give a slide lecture Tuesday on two campuses of Tidewater Community College.
At 10 a.m., Schulke will give a 45-minute talk at the Portsmouth campus. At noon, he will speak for 90 minutes in Room 208 of the Visual Arts Center at TCC Olde Towne.
A TCC instructor, Vme Edom Smith, is bringing Schulke to South Hampton Roads to speak to students enrolled in her course ``Social Institutions Through Photography.'' Realizing Schulke's significance in the realm of documentary photography, she opened his presentation to the public.
The photographer has published three books on civil rights leader King and his movement based on non-violent protest of social injustice. He also has photographed Fidel Castro, the Kennedys, Jimmy Hoffa, the Berlin Wall and the space program.
A photograph by Schulke of a grieving Myrlie Evers, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is on view at The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk. His photo is part of the exhibit ``Appeal to This Age: Photography of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968,'' which continues through March 2. ILLUSTRATION: FLIP SCHULKE
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holding his son Dexter in 1963 in one of
Flip Schulke's many portraits.
WANT TO GO?
What: Slide lecture by Flip Schulke, a well-known photographer of
the civil rights movement
When and where: 10 a.m. Tuesday at Tidewater Community College's
Portsmouth campus, 7000 College Drive, Suffolk; noon Tuesday in Room
208, TCC Olde Towne, 340 High St., Portsmouth
How much: Free and open to the public
Call: 396-6999