I am a man : photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970

Author/Creator:

Ferris, William R., author, compiler

Publication/Creation:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

I am a man : photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 / William R. Ferris ; foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III

Uniform Title:

I am a man.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Bunch, Lonnie G., III, writer of foreword

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Documentary photographs

Subjects:

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum--Exhibitions
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--Pictorial works
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Photograph collections--Mississippi--Jackson--Exhibitions
Documentary photography

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

I am a man: photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 -- 1961: Freedom rides, Jackson, MS, Birmingham, AL -- 1962: James Meredith integrates University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS -- 1963: March on Washington -- 1964: Ku Klux Klan rally in Salisbury, NC -- 1965: Selma to Montgomery march -- 1966: James Meredith march against fear, Jackson, MS -- 1968: Mule train-Poor People's March on Washington, Marks, MN -- 1968: Sanitation workers strike, Memphis, TN -- 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, Memphis, TN -- 1970: Jackson State University.

Summary:

"In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith as the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi; the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; and the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis-where Martin Luther King was assassinated-rank as cardinal events in black Americans' fight for their civil rights. The photographs featured in I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970 bear witness to the courage of protesters who faced unimaginable violence and brutality as well as the quiet determination of the elderly and the angry commitment of the young. Talented photographers documented that decade and captured both the bravery of civil rights workers and the violence they faced. Most notably, this book features the work of Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Doris Derby, Roland Freeman, Danny Lyon, Art Shay, and Ernest Withers. Like the fabled music and tales of the American South, their photographs document the region's past, its people, and the places that shaped their lives. Protesters in these photographs generated the mighty leverage that eventually transformed a segregated South. The years from 1960 to 1970 unleashed both hope and profound change as desegregation opened public spaces and African Americans secured their rights. The photographs in this volume reveal, as only great photography can, the pivotal moments that changed history, and yet remind us how far we have to go"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xvi, 131 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 28 cm

General Note:

"Originally published in 2018 by Ville de Montpellier and Éditions Hazan as I Am a Man: Photographies et luttes pour les droits civiques dans le Sud États-Unis, 1960-1970" -- title page verso.
Translated from the French.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937414695902486

ISBN:

9781496831620
1496831624

OCLC Number:

1154107709

Barcode:

050000092745