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This light of ours : activist photographers of the civil rights movement / edited by Leslie G. Kelen ; essays by Julian Bond, Clayborne Carson, and Matt Herron ; text by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelen, Leslie G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Civil rights movements.
- Photographers--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.
- Photographers.
- Political activists--United States--History--20th century.
- Political activists.
- Photographers--United States--Interviews.
- Political activists--United States--Interviews.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Southern States.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)--History.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement-primarily within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) framework-and documented its activities by focusing on the
- Contents:
- Photographing civil rights / Matt Herron
- Photographs
- pt. 1. Black life
- pt. 2. Organizing for freedom
- pt. 3. State and local terror
- pt. 4. Meredith march against fear and Black power
- How I first saw King and found the movement / Clayborne Carson
- The photographers : interviews and biographies
- Tamio Wakayama
- Herbert Randall
- Maria Varela
- George Ballis
- Bob Fitch
- Matt Herron
- Bob Fletcher
- David Prince
- Bob Adelman.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613804082
- 9781621037897
- 1621037894
- 9781282111899
- 1282111892
- 9781617031724
- 1617031720
- OCLC:
- 801363601
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