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.

Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: 251 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Additional Creators: Kelen, Leslie G., 1949-, Bond, Julian, 1940-2015, Carson, Clayborne, 1944-, Herron, Matt, 1931-, and Cobb, Charles E., Jr.

Availability

Finding items...

Contents

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.

Subject(s)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)—History
Civil rights movements—United States—History—20th century—Pictorial works
Photographers—Political activity—United States—History—20th century
Political activists—United States—History—20th century
African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century—Pictorial works
Photographers—United States—Interviews
Political activists—United States—Interviews
Southern States—Race relations—History—20th century—Pictorial works
United States—Race relations—History—20th century—Pictorial works

ISBN

9781617031717 (cloth : alk. paper)
1617031712 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781617031724 (ebook)
1617031720 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index.

View MARC record | catkey: 8037030