kodak_powerfuldays_powerfuldays powerfuldays powerfuldays kodak yes Powerful days in black and white Moore, Charles, 1931- Civil rights movements--Southern States Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery Police brutality--Alabama--Montgomery Police brutality--Alabama--Selma Race riots--Mississippi--Oxford Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) College integration--Mississippi--Oxford African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States Christians--Political activity African Americans--Politics and government Voter registration--Southern States White supremacy movements--Southern States Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965 Project C, Birmingham, Ala., 1963 Jones, James R. Meredith, James, 1933- McShane, James J. P. (James Joseph Patrick), 1909-1968 Doar, John, 1921- Bender, Rita L. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Imprisonment This Web site presents twenty black-and-white photographs covering the civil rights movement in the American South taken by Charles Moore during the years 1958-1965; it also includes a brief biography of Moore. Moore began as a photographer for the newspaper the Montgomery Advertiser before working as a contract photographer for Life Magazine. Events covered include the early efforts of Dr. King to desegregate Montgomery, Alabama (1958-60); the violent reaction to the enrollment of James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi (1962); the Freedom March from Tennessee to Mississippi (1963); the campaign to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama (1963); voter registration drives in Mississippi (1963-1964); Ku Klux Klan activities in North Carolina (1965); and the march from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama (1965). The site's photographs are a selection from a book of Moore's civil rights photographs, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991). The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Rochester (N.Y.)] : Eastman Kodak Company Black-and-white photographs Biographies http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml 1958/1965 Southern States All photographs copyright Charles Moore. 20090526 204835