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    James Baldwin at a Harlem church in New York, New York in 1963. Photo by Steve Schapiro, courtesy of Fahey Klein Gallery
“Activists and Icons: The Photographs of Steve Schapiro,” an exhibit at Skokie’s Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, will close Sunday, Oct. 27. It was originally slated to close June 23.

Schapiro, a Chicago-based photographer, has works that have been featured in publications such as Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and numerous others. The exhibition’s 46 large-format photographs tell the story of seminal moments in history from the March on Washington (1963) to Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign (1968).

The museum is in Skokie, at 9603 Woods Dr. Visit http://ILHolocaustMuseum.org/activists-and-icons/.