Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore

Moore, Charles and Durham, Michael

ISBN 10: 1556702027 / ISBN 13: 9781556702020

Published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang, New York, 1991

About this Item

A near Fine unmarked copy.A large format volume of 208 pages. There are few Americans who would not recognize Charles Morre's most famous photographs. His images of police dogs and fire hoses being turned on demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 became instant symbols, in America and abroad, of the black struggle for equality. This book brings together the most significant pictures of the Civil Rights Movement in the South from 1958 to 1965. Charles Moore, an Alabama native who understood people on both sides of the struggle, came away from events with the pictures best able to tell the story. His heralded action photographs from the University of Mississippi, Birmingham, Selma, and rural Mississippi are at the heart of the book, but there is much more. He also photographed civil rights workers in storefronts and church basements. He covered Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery long before he was known nationally, and he photographed the white opposition, including George Wallace and the Ku Klux Klan. The accompanying text is written by journalist Michael Durham, who worked with Moore on some of his most important stories. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.05 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 2 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Powerful Days - The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556702027
• ISBN 13: 9781556702020
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography/Photographers

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Synopsis

Book by Moore, Charles

About the Author

Michael S. Durham was a Life reporter and editor from 1961 to 1972. He is the former editor of Americana magazine and author of two volumes of The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America. Andrew Young worked as a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. He has served two terms in the U.S. Congress, was U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and was mayor of Atlanta from 1981 to 1989.