The Past is Prologue: The Power of Imagery and the Civil RightsLike this list

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• The Civil Rights Movement

  a Photographic History, 1954-68

  Kasher, Steven

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  Featuring images by Richard Avedon, Danny Lyon, Charles Moore, Gordon Parks, Dan Weiner, and others, paired with remembrances and analysis by various photographers and participants. The work features pivotal moments from Montgomery bus boycott…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gordon Parks

  Born Black : a Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt, 1960-1970

  Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006,

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  "Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks' Born Black was the first book to unite his writing and his photography and also the first to provide a focused survey of Parks' documentation of a crucial time for the civil rights and Black Power…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Justice, No Peace

  From The Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

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  No Justice, No Peace, juxtaposes photographs by Award-winning photographer Devin Allen of today's Black Lives Matter protests alongside Gordon Parks' photographs of the Civil Rights Movements.

• Power to the People

  the World of the Black Panthers

  Shames, Stephen,

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  The story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded 50 years ago in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. Seale met Huey Newton at Merritt College, where they were both enrolled in the early 1960s, and together they founded the party.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am a Man

  Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970

  Ferris, William R.,

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  A collection of works from Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Doris Derby, Roland Freeman, Danny Lyon, Art Shay and Ernest Withers. I Am A Man is a decade of photographs of courage and bravery of Civil Rights workers and the violence they faced.

• Picturing Black History

  Photographs and Stories That Changed the World

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  "Picturing Black History offers a trove of both famous and unseen photos with brief, poignant accompanying essays to show not only the centrality of Black people to American history but also how African Americans used the photographer's lens to tell…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  Walking in the Light

  Fishman, Jon M.

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  A book for younger readers feature some quotes from King's speeches and writings alongside photographs and sidebar content.

• Julian Bond's Time to Teach

  a History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

  Bond, Julian, 1940-2015,

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  "As a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); as a member of the Georgia state legislature from 1967 to 1987; and as chairman of the NAACP (1998- 2010), Bond (1940--2015) lived the struggle to achieve democracy in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Powerful Days

  the Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore

  Durham, Michael S. (Michael Schelling), 1935-

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  A 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.

• Mine Eyes Have Seen

  Bearing Witness to the Civil Rights Struggle

  Adelman, Bob

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  "A visual tribute to the civil rights movement and the battle for racial equality captures the leaders and events of the era, with portraits of Sidney Poitier, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other activists who took part in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Revolution in Black and White

  Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest C. Withers

  Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007,

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  Ernest C. Withers was a prominent African-American photographer who worked during the civil rights years. He took thousands of photographs from 1955-1968. This work combines many of his photos for the first time, and pairs them with first hand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story of the Civil Rights

  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Photographs

  Aretha, David

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  "Discusses the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, including the causes for the march, how the march was organized and its leaders, the important speeches, and the impact it had on the Civil Rights Movement."