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 student activists and local people who together made it happen.The core of the book is a selection of 150 black-and-white photographs; representing the work of photographers Bob Adelman; George Ballis; Bob Fitch; Bob Fletcher; Matt Herron; David Prince; Herbert Randall; Maria Varela; and Tamio Wakayama. Images are grouped around four movement themes and convey SNCCs organizing strategies; resolve in the face of violence; impact on local and national politics; and influence on the nations consciousness. The photographs and texts of This Light of Ours remind us that the movement was a battleground; that the battle was successfully fought by thousands of "ordinary" Americans among whom were the nations courageous youth; and that the movements moral vision and impact continue to shape our lives.
#544377 in eBooks 2009-10-26 2009-10-26File Name: B008P1HL9O
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