I found this on the internet. I dont know who the author is, but I wish that Oprah and others that say crap about OLD WHITE MEN would read this! In a society where blacks were totally oppressed, does it make sense that blacks ACTING ALONE could have brought about the success of the Civil Rights Movement. That is an absurd assumption. and why all of the gains that were made by the hard work, lives and deaths of so many people have been forgotten by entire generations of black people in the U.S. Because their parents, and grandparents failed to tell them just how many WHITE people worked so hard, so desperately, so tirelessly, and gave their lives, so that an entire race of people would know freedom. It is the shame of the black community in my opinion. And I know. I was there. I was one of those people who saw injustice among American citizens and was determined to make a difference. Just a few people who took their lives into their own hands and sacrificed comfort and security for the truth, to help win this war against bigotry, oppression and hartred are: Beginning with the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, photography and photographers played an important role in advancing the American Civil Rights Movement by documenting the public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans. Dan Budnik, in 1963, Budnik persuaded Life to have him create a long-term photo essay documenting the Selma to Montgomery march. His photographs are now in the collection of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. Bruce Davidson chronicled the events and effects of Civil Rights Movement, in both the North and the South, from 1961 to 1965. In support of his project, Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 and his finished project was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Upon the completion of his documentation of the Civil Rights Movement, Davidson received the first ever photography grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Warren K. Leffler was a photographer for U.S. News & World Report during the civil rights years. Although based primarily in Washington, D.C., Leffler also traveled to the South to cover many of the main events for the magazine. Danny Lyon published his first photographs working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His pictures appeared in The Movement, a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement. James Spider Martins photographs documented the March 1965 beating of marchers in the Selma to Montgomery march, known as “Bloody Sunday.” About the effect of photography on the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, Spider, we could have marched, we could have protested forever, but if it werent for guys like you, it would have been for nothing. The whole world saw your pictures. Thats why the Voting Rights Act was passed. Charles Moore, in 1958 photographed an argument between Martin Luther King, Jr. and two policemen. His photographs were distributed nationally by the Associated Press, and published in Life and he began traveling throughout the South documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Moores most famous photograph, Birmingham, depicts demonstrators being attacked by firemen wielding high-pressure hoses. U.S. Senator Jacob Javits (white) said that Moores pictures helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Gordon Parks was assigned by Life in 1963 to travel with Malcolm X and document the civil rights movement. He was also involved with the movement on a personal level. Herbert Eugene Randall, Jr. photographed the effects of the Civil Rights Movement in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1964, at the request of Sanford R. Leigh, the Director of Mississippi Freedom Summers Hattiesburg project. He spent the entire summer photographing solely in Hattiesburg, among the African-American community and among the volunteers in area projects such as the Freedom Schools, Voter Registration, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party campaign. Only five of Randalls photographs were published in the summer of 1964. One seen worldwide was the bloodied, concussed Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld (white and Jewish), head of a prominent Cleveland congregation and former conscientious objector to World War II. In 1999, Randall donated 1,800 negatives to the archives of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He and Bobs Tusa, the archivist at USM, wrote Faces of Freedom Summer, which was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2001. Faces is the only record of a single town in the midst of the Civil Rights revolution in America. At the time, the Hattiesburg Project was overlooked and unpublicized by the Civil Rights Movement.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:17:15 +0000
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