| Maker(s): | Moore, Charles
| | Culture: | American (1931-2010)
| | Title: | People at the funeral of Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, who was shot and killed in his home state, from Pictures That Made a Difference: The Civil Rights Movement
| | Date Made: | 1963 June negative; 1989 print
| | Type: | Photograph
| | Materials: | Gelatin silver print on Kodak Elite fine-art paper, S-surface
| | Place Made: | North America; United States
| | Measurements: | Mat: 14 in x 18 in; 35.6 cm x 45.7 cm; Sheet: 1 in x 14 in; 2.5 cm x 35.6 cm; Image: 8 1/2 in x 12 1/4 in; 21.6 cm x 31.1 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | SIGNATURE: recto, lwr. r. (ink): Charles Moore; EDITION: recto, lwr. l. (ink): 21/25
| | Accession Number: | MH 2015.2.8
| | Credit Line: | Gift of anonymous donor
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Label Text:
While working as a photojournalist for Birmingham, Alabama newspapers in the 1950s, Charles Moore captured images of legendary Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr., which were distributed widely by the Associated Press and Life magazine. After this early success Moore traveled throughout the South, documenting civil rights protests and activists— and their brutal suppression by police. His photographs brought the struggle for civil rights in the South into the homes of Americans across the country. These images, which are by equal turns painful and poignant, are credited in part with helping shape public opinion and the eventual passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
-Ellen Alvord, Weatherbie Curator of Education and Academic Programs, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)
Tags:
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