Leonard Freed: Black in White America 1963–1965 Basic Art Series This handcrafted card features the

This handcrafted card features the words Happy Birthday beautifully scripted in rainbow colors

As his work evolved

He believed “A picture lives by companionship

Or will he drift out into the ocean and be lost forever

Sylvia Rivera

Leonard Freed: Black in White America 1963–1965 Basic Art Series This handcrafted card features theThe definitive collection of Leonard Freeds seminal and timely 1968 civil rights photo essay, in a fresh and expanded edition In 1961, Leonard Freed was on assignment in Berlin. He photographed a Black soldier standing in front of the wall. The irony of this soldier defending the USA on foreign soil while Black Americans at home were fighting for their civil rights was not lost on Freed. He returned to the States in 1963 to photograph the March on