For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights /

For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights /

In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their own eyes the brutality of segregation and racism,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berger, Maurice, 1956-
Corporate Author: International Center of Photography
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Race relations > Art > Exhibitions.
Art and race > Exhibitions.
Civil rights movements > United States > Exhibitions.
Civil rights movements > United States > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
African Americans in art > Exhibitions.
African Americans in mass media > Exhibitions.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States > Exhibitions.

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