This light of ours [electronic resource] : 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.
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949-; Bond, Julian, 1940-2015.; Carson, Clayborne, 1944-; Herron, Matt, 1931-2020.; Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
2011
E185.615 .T495 2011eb
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Title This light of ours [electronic resource] : 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.
ISBN 9781617031724 (electronic book)
9781617031717
1617031712
Imprint Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (251 p.) : ill.
Call Number E185.615 .T495 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
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 student activists and local people who together made it happen. The core of the book is a selection of 150 black-and-white photographs, representing the work of photographers Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron, David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama. Images are grouped around four movement themes and convey SNCC's organizing strategies, resolve in the face of violence, impact on local and national politics, and influence on the nation's consciousness. The photographs and texts of This Light of Ours remind us that the movement was a battleground, that the battle was successfully fought by thousands of "ordinary" Americans among whom were the nation's courageous youth, and that the movement's moral vision and impact continue to shape our lives.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and index.
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Added Author Kelen, Leslie G., 1949-
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015.
Carson, Clayborne, 1944-
Herron, Matt, 1931-2020.
Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
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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.

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