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131 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 28 cm |
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"Originally published in 2018 by Ville de Montpellier and Éditions Hazan as I Am a Man: Photographies et luttes pour les droits civiques dans le Sud États-Unis, 1960-1970" -- title page verso. |
| Contents |
I am a man: photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 -- 1961: Freedom rides, Jackson, MS, Birmingham, AL -- 1962: James Meredith integrates University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS -- 1963: March on Washington -- 1964: Ku Klux Klan rally in Salisbury, NC -- 1965: Selma to Montgomery march -- 1966: James Meredith march against fear, Jackson, MS -- 1968: Mule train-Poor People's March on Washington, Marks, MN -- 1968: Sanitation workers strike, Memphis, TN -- 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, Memphis, TN -- 1970: Jackson State University. |
| Summary |
"In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith as the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi; the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; and the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis-where Martin Luther King was assassinated-rank as cardinal events in black Americans' fight for their civil rights. The photographs featured in I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 bear witness to the courage of protesters who faced unimaginable violence and brutality as well as the quiet determination of the elderly and the angry commitment of the young. Talented photographers documented that decade and captured both the bravery of civil rights workers and the violence they faced. Most notably, this book features the work of Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Doris Derby, Roland Freeman, Danny Lyon, Art Shay, and Ernest Withers. Like the fabled music and tales of the American South, their photographs document the region's past, its people, and the places that shaped their lives. Protesters in these photographs generated the mighty leverage that eventually transformed a segregated South. The years from 1960 to 1970 unleashed both hope and profound change as desegregation opened public spaces and African Americans secured their rights. The photographs in this volume reveal, as only great photography can, the pivotal moments that changed history, and yet remind us how far we have to go"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum -- Exhibitions.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- Pictorial works.
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
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Photograph collections -- Missippi -- Jackson -- Exhibitions.
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Documentary photography.
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Pictures.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Name(S) |
Bunch, Lonnie G., III, author of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781496831620 (hardcover) |
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1496831624 (hardcover) |
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