For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights / Maurice Berger ; foreword by Thulani Davis.
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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New Haven :
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