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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Foreword; Photographing Civil Rights; The Photographs; Part One: Black Life; Part Two: Organizing for Freedom; Part Three: State and Local Terror; Part Four: Meredith March against Fear and Black Power; Reflection: How I First Saw King and Found the Movement; The Photographers: Interviews and Biographies; Tamio Wakayama; Herbert Randall; Maria Varela; George Ballis; Bob Fitch; Matt Herron; Bob Fletcher; David Prince; Bob Adelman; Recommended Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. |
| Summary |
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement-primarily within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) framework-and documented its activities by focusing on the. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) -- History.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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20th century |
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Pictorial works.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
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Civil rights movements. |
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United States. |
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Photographers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Photographers. |
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Political participation. |
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Political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Political activists. |
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Photographers -- United States -- Interviews.
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Interviews.
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Political activists -- United States -- Interviews.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries. |
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Race relations. |
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General. |
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Southern States. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Illustrated works.
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Illustrated works.
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Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015.
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Carson, Clayborne, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelen, Leslie G. This Light of Ours : Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2011 9781617031717 |
| ISBN |
9781617031724 (electronic book) |
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1617031720 (electronic book) |
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9781617031717 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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1617031712 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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