Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore - Softcover

Moore, Charles W.; Durham, Michael S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556702027 ISBN 13: 9781556702020

Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc, 1991

Synopsis

A collection of pictures of the southern phase of the American civil rights movement, from 1958 to 1966. Photographs from the University of Mississippi are combined with photographs of civil rights workers in storefronts and church basements and blacks organizing voter registration drives.

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Review

""Powerful Days" is powerful stuff. The freedom marchers look as heroic as Iwo Jima Marines fighting their way up a mountain-which is just what they had to do." "Newsweek"" "Every once in a while we receive a well-documented treasure of American history. This collection is such a treasure. . . . [Moore's] black-and-white photos of that era are classics of photojournalism, and as Powerful Days documents, those classics have lost none of their force and energy." Southern Living" "Powerful Days is powerful stuff. The freedom marchers look as heroic as Iwo Jima Marines fighting their way up a mountain-which is just what they had to do." Newsweek" "[This book] contains many images that will be wrenchingly familiar to those who lived through this proud moral turning point in American history." New York Times Book Review" "Every once in a while we receive a well-documented treasure of American history. This collection is such a treasure. . . . [Moore's] black-and-white photos of that era are classics of photojournalism, and as "Powerful Days" documents, those classics have lost none of their force and energy." " Southern Living""

From the Back Cover

"Alabama photographer Charles Moore documented one of the most painful chapters of American history--the civil-rights movement. Powerful Days is powerful stuff. The freedom marchers look as heroic as Iwo Jima Marines fighting their way up a mountain--which just about what they had to do."--Newsweek "Mr. Moore's stark, crisp photos of freedom marchers beset by police dogs and fire hoses . . . helped to shape the nation's conscience. . . . [This book] contains many images that will be wrenchingly familiar to those who lived through the proud moral turning point in American history, and that might serve to inspire younger generations."--New York Times Book Review "Every once in a while we receive a well-documented treasure of American history. This collection is such a treasure. . . . [Moore's] black-and-white photos of that era are classics of photojournalism, and as Powerful Days documents, those classics have lost none of their force and energy."--Southern Living

Edition details

• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556702027
• ISBN 13: 9781556702020
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Moore Charles
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208