RESIST! A Visual History of Protest
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Like the silk map slipped from parachutist Franklin McMahon's sleeve offering escape from the German P.O.W. camp, daughter and author Margot, describes the astonishing world then flung upon him from 1945-2012. Her evocative words startle the reader to life, as we follow Franklin and Irene parents to a family of nine, immersed in a lifetime of struggle for social justice! They provoke us to confront truth via vivid pencil drawings, historic voice, faith and film in order to Resist and Answer: What have you done today for justice? --Kathleen Osberger, L.C.S.W., Chicago community organizer, activist and therapist
The true story of the later years of Franklin McMahon, artist-reporter for many powerful moments in U.S. History, from the Emmett Till Trial to the Apollo missions. McMahon was a WWII Army Air Corps veteran and former prisoner of war in Germany who made it back home to Chicago to his sweetheart Irene. McMahon became an award-winning presidential artist, among numerous additional honors. This book is the final in a series by Franklin's daughter, Margot McMahon. This book is part of the RESIST! exhibitions in museums nationwide.
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"Margot McMahon's retrospective on her father, Franklin McMahon's, life and art is a beautiful tribute to a Peabody Award winning artist whose work served the people. Few white male artists consistently sketched historical events from the perspective of those written out of history. In a tense courtroom, Mac drew the moment when a black witness pointed out Emmet Till's murderers . . . From WWII to 2012, Mac published intricate, energized portraits of the peoples' fight for justice."
Renny Golden, Professor Emerita, Northeastern Illinois University
The Music of Her Rivers, University of NM Press
"How do you shuck 300 years of U.S. history? Grab your imagination and follow the magical pencil of artist-reporter Franklin McMahon to see deeply and confront the truths of our social justice struggles: Building the Berlin wall; Emmett Till's trial in LIFE magazine; Jesse Jackson's Christmas sermon chanted to prisoners, 'I am ... Somebody!'; Robert Kennedy 1968; Martin Luther King on Madison Ave. Chicago; El Salvador Protest at Notre Dame 1985; Senator Barack Obama's Democratic Convention Speech; Iraq War Protest 2003; Gay Rights Activists Meet. Margot McMahon, author and daughter, evocatively depicts these epic moments in this memoir of Mac and Irene's lives. . ."
Kathleen Osberger, L.C.S.W., community organizer, activist and therapist
"This story lovingly melds a reporter/father's posthumously curated art and his daughter's ingeniously crafted complementary essays. Her harmonized essayed interpretations provide stirring meaning to her father's decades of political protest art. Combined, they blend to offer readers an informative, wonderfully enjoyable, easy read."
Fred Fitzsimmons, President of Off-Campus Writers' Workshop
