Injustice in Focus : The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams / Cecil Williams and Claudia Smith Brinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Cecil, 1906-1979, author.

Brinson, Claudia Smith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Williams, Cecil J., 1937-.

Williams, Cecil J.

Civil rights movements--South Carolina--History.

Civil rights movements.

Civil rights movements--South Carolina--Pictorial works.

African Americans--South Carolina--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Political activity--South Carolina.

Photojournalists--South Carolina--Orangeburg--Biography.

Photojournalists.

South Carolina--Orangeburg.

South Carolina.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

History.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Civil Rights photography of Cecil Williams

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to White violence perpetrated by law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era. Williams and award-winning journalist Claudia Smith Brinson combine forces in Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams. Together they document civil rights activism in the 1940s through the 1960s in South Carolina. Williams was there, in South Carolina, to witness and document pivotal movements such as then-NAACP legal counsel Thurgood Marshall's arrival in Charleston to argue the landmark case Briggs v. Elliott and the aftermath of the infamous Orangeburg Massacre. Featuring eighty stunning photographs accompanied by Brinson's rich research, interviews, and prose, Injustice in Focus offers a firsthand account of South Carolina's fight for civil rights and describes Williams's life behind the camera as a documentarian of the civil rights movement"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Williams, Cecil Injustice in Focus

ISBN:

9781643364384

1643364383

OCLC:

1411256329