Children swam in Dallas’s Exline Park on Aug. 6, 1957. The photographer, R.C. Hickman, became interested in the art form during his World War II military service, leading to him becoming an official Army photographer. Mr. Hickman became best known for his photos of the civil rights movement. But during a long career in Dallas he also documented the daily lives of the city’s dynamic African-American community in the decades following World War II. “Hickman was an outstanding photographer whose work will remain a permanent visual record of a significant transitional era in the history of the African-American community in Dallas,” says Don Carleton, executive director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, which houses Hickman’s photography archive. Click the button below to view a gallery of Hickman’s work.