A dark-skinned man shouts and holds a sign that reads “No Vietnamese Ever Called Me a Nigger. Stop the War Now!”. He walks down the street surrounded by fellow protesters.

First Anti-Vietnam War March

1967

LeRoy Henderson American, born 1936

United States

After early studies in fine art, LeRoy Henderson turned to photojournalism in the 1960s, eventually contributing to magazines such as Black Enterprise, Essence, Jet, Newsweek, and New York. He shot this photograph at an antiwar protest organized by the Black United Action Front in which participants, led by civil rights activists Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick, marched from Harlem to Central Park. In printed and shouted slogans such as the one seen here, marchers linked the war in Vietnam to struggles for justice at home.

Gelatin silver print

Photography and Media

African Diaspora

African American artists