This light of ours activist photographers of the civil rights movement /

This light of ours activist photographers of the civil rights movement / [electronic resource] : edited by Leslie G. Kelen ; essays by Julian Bond, Clayborne Carson, and Matt Herron ; text by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011. - 251 p. : ill.

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

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781617031724 (electronic bk.)




Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)--History.


African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century--Pictorial works.
Photographers--Political activity--History--United States--20th century.
Political activists--History--United States--20th century.
Photographers--United States--Interviews.
Political activists--United States--Interviews.


United States--Race relations--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century--Pictorial works.


Electronic books.

E185.615 / .T495 2011

305.800973