Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) - Softcover

Moore, Charles W.; Durham, Michael S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817311521 ISBN 13: 9780817311520

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, 2001

Synopsis

There are few Americans who would not recognize Charles Moore's most famous photographs. His images of the civil rights movement have become, and remain today, internationally known icons - vivid, scaring portraits of pivotal moments in the struggle for racial equality in the American South. This 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. Included are the iconic scenes of black protestors huddled in a doorway to escape the crippling blasts of fire hoses in Birmingham; a white bigot swinging a baseball bat seconds before cracking it on the head of a black woman during the desegregation of the Capitol Cafeteria in Montgomery; a young and stunned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pinned to the counter of a police precinct, his arm twisted behind his back; the devastating aftermath of "Bloody Sunday" on the Edmund Pertus Bridge in Selma; and Bull Connor's police dogs tearing mercilessly at the legs of a protestor in downtown Birmingham. Celebrity protestors - comedian Dick Gregory, poet Galway Kinnell, singers Joan Baez, Mary Travers, Pete Seeger, and Harry Bellafonte, actor Pernell Roberts, and writer James Baldwin - are featured alongside the many nameless but committed participants and the recognized major leaders of the movement. Powerful Days was first published in hardcover in 1991. This new paperback edition will make these famous images, so etched in the memory of those who lived through the social changes of the 1960s, available again to enlighten a younger generation eager to know more about the national struggle that overthrew Jim Crow.

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About the Author

Charles Moore has been a photojournalist for nearly 50 years, with much of his earlier work appearing in Life magazine. In 1989 he received the first Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism in recognition of his coverage of the civil rights struggle. Michael S. Durham was a Life reporter and editor from 1961 to 1972. He is the former editor of Americana magazine and the author of two volumes of The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America. Andrew Young worked as a top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. He has served two terms in the U.S. Congress, was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and was mayor of Atlanta from 1981 to 1989.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817311521
• ISBN 13: 9780817311520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208