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Maker(s):Moore, Charles
Culture:American (1931-2010)
Title:On a downtown Montgomery, Alabama street, racial violence erupts, from Pictures That Made a Difference: The Civil Rights Movement
Date Made:1960 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: 11 in x 14 in; 27.9 cm x 35.6 cm; Image: 9 in x 13 1/2 in; 22.9 cm x 34.3 cm
Narrative Inscription:  SIGNATURE: recto, lwr. r. (ink): Charles Moore; EDITION: recto, lwr. l. (ink): 21/25
Accession Number:  MH 2015.2.3
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:
protests; civil rights; violence

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