Powerful days : the civil rights photography of Charles Moore

Responsibility
text by Michael S. Durham ; introduction by Andrew Young.
Imprint
Tuscaloosa, Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2002.
Physical description
207 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.

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Contents
  • Montgomery, 1958-1960
  • Oxford, Mississippi, 1962
  • The Freedom March, 1963
  • Birmingham, 1963
  • Voter registration, Mississippi, 1963-1964
  • The Ku Klux Klan, North Carolina, 1965
  • The Selma March, 1965.
Publisher's summary
There are few Americans who would not recognize Charles Moore's most famous photographs. His images of the civil rights movement have become, and remain today, internationally known icons - vivid, scaring portraits of pivotal moments in the struggle for racial equality in the American South. This chronological collection of Moore's most compelling and dramatic images, taken as the movement progressed through Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia, highlights activity from 1958 to 1965. Included are the iconic scenes of black protestors huddled in a doorway to escape the crippling blasts of fire hoses in Birmingham; a white bigot swinging a baseball bat seconds before cracking it on the head of a black woman during the desegregation of the Capitol Cafeteria in Montgomery; a young and stunned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pinned to the counter of a police precinct, his arm twisted behind his back; the devastating aftermath of "Bloody Sunday" on the Edmund Pertus Bridge in Selma; and Bull Connor's police dogs tearing mercilessly at the legs of a protestor in downtown Birmingham. Celebrity protestors - comedian Dick Gregory, poet Galway Kinnell, singers Joan Baez, Mary Travers, Pete Seeger, and Harry Bellafonte, actor Pernell Roberts, and writer James Baldwin - are featured alongside the many nameless but committed participants and the recognized major leaders of the movement. Powerful Days was first published in hardcover in 1991. This new paperback edition will make these famous images, so etched in the memory of those who lived through the social changes of the 1960s, available again to enlighten a younger generation eager to know more about the national struggle that overthrew Jim Crow.
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Reprint/reissue date
2002
Original date
1991
Note
"The University of Alabama School of Law."
Published in cooperation with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
Originally published: New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991.
Includes index.
ISBN
0817311521 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817311520 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0817352597
9780817352592

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