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The Past is Prologue: The Power of Imagery and the Civil Rights

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  • The Civil Rights Movement

    a Photographic History, 1954-68

    Kasher, Steven
    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…
    Book, 1996New York : Abbeville Press, c1996. — 323.1196 Kasher
  • Gordon Parks

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

    Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006,
    "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…
    Book, 2024Göttingen : Steidl ; Pleasantville, NY : Gordon Parks Foundation ; 2024. — 973.0496 Parks 08/2024
  • No Justice, No Peace

    From The Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

    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.
    Book, 2022New York , NY : Legacy Lit, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — 323.0973 No 10/2022
  • Power to the People

    the World of the Black Panthers

    Shames, Stephen,
    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.…
    Book, 2016New York : Abrams, 2016. — 322.42 Shames 11/2016
  • I Am a Man

    Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970

    Ferris, William R.,
    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.
    Book, 2021Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021] — 323.0975 Ferris
  • Picturing Black History

    Photographs and Stories That Changed the World

    "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…
    Book, 2024New York : Abrams, [2024] — 973.0496 Picturin 02/2025
  • A book for younger readers feature some quotes from King's speeches and writings alongside photographs and sidebar content.
    Book, 2019Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, [2019] — J BIO KING M. Fishman 02/2019
  • Julian Bond's Time to Teach

    a History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

    Bond, Julian, 1940-2015,
    "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…
    Book, 2020Boston : Beacon Press, [2020] — 323.0975 Bond 01/2021
  • Powerful Days

    the Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore

    Durham, Michael S. (Michael Schelling), 1935-
    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.
    Book, 2002Tuscaloosa, Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2002. — 323.1196 Durham
  • Mine Eyes Have Seen

    Bearing Witness to the Civil Rights Struggle

    Adelman, Bob
    "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…
    Book, 2007New York : Time Home Entertainment ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], 2007. — 323.1196 Adelman
  • Revolution in Black and White

    Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest C. Withers

    Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007,
    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…
    Book, 2019Chicago, Illinois : CityFiles Press, [2019] — 323.1196 Withers 01/2020
  • The Story of the Civil Rights

    March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Photographs

    Aretha, David
    "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."
    Book, 2014Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, Inc., [2014] — J 323.1196 Aretha 03/2014