Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality: Photography from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Lewis, John (Contributor)/ Bunch, Lonnie (Foreward By)/ Stevenson, Bryan (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 1907804471 / ISBN 13: 9781907804472

Published by D Giles Ltd, 2015

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80 pages. 7.00x7.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality: Photography from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Publisher: D Giles Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907804471
• ISBN 13: 9781907804472
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.25 kilograms

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Synopsis

Volume 2 of Double Exposure commemorates the ongoing fight to fulfil the promise of freedom and equality for all American citizens, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the present. It features powerful images from, for example, Leonard Freed's series, Black in White America, Ernest C. Withers's photographs of the Sanitation Workers' Solidarity March in Nashville, and Charles Moore's documentation of police brutality during the 1963 Birmingham Childrens' Crusade.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and a professor at NYU School of Law.

About the Author

Bryan A. Stevenson is Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a private, nonprofit law organization he founded that focuses on social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. Stevenson joined the clinical faculty at New York University School of Law as Professor of Clinical Law in 1998. Stevenson's work has won him national acclaim. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Award Prize. He is also a 1989 recipient of the Reebok Human Rights Award, the 1991 ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the 2000 Olaf Palme Prize in Stockholm, Sweden for international human rights. He has published several widely disseminated manuals on capital litigation and written extensively on criminal justice, capital punishment and civil rights issues.