ABSTRACT
Charles Moore was a photographer whose assignments made him a witness to many historical moments during the Civil Rights movement. During the 1960s, his powerful images were published in many US newspapers as well as in LIFE magazine, the news and popular culture weekly, which devoted dozens of pages to his work. Moore believed that his photos would cause people to take political action. News photographers, as well as TV news crews, were regular witnesses to the protests and police violence associated with the activities of the movement's leader, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., capturing his famous oratory and documenting frequent confrontations with white authorities in the segregated South. John Lewis recently recounted many of these incidents in a trilogy of best-selling graphic novels entitled March. Teachers of American history and librarians should give serious consideration to acquiring the books, filled with powerful imagery, for their teaching collections.
