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Behold the People R. C. Hickman was a Dallas photographer whose thousands of images produced from 1949-1961 document aspects of life in an African American community in Texas. His photographs depict a community largely invisible to white Americans — thoroughly a part of mainstream America by virtue of accomplishment and lifestyle but excluded from it because of race. Mr. Hickman worked as a commercial portrait
photographer, as a photojournalist for several black newspapers
in Dallas, as a freelance photographer for national black publications
such as Jet, Sepia, and Ebony, and as a photographer
for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP). His images reveal his awareness of the broad community
context within which individuals survive, grow, and understand themselves.
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