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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Main Author: Berger, Maurice, 1956-2020.
Corporate Author: International Center of Photography.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
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Call Number: NX180.S6 B47 2010
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