Powerful Days

by Moore, Charles; Durham, Michael S.; Young, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780817352592
• ISBN10: 0817352597
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-27
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

"Most of Charles Moore's award-winning civil rights photography originally appeared in the weekly Life magazine, for which he freelanced from 1962 to 1972. Since the mid-1960s, he has traveled extensively in Asia on assignment for U.S. and international magazines; he has also won awards for his corporate and industrial photography. In 1989, Mr. Moore, an Alabama native, received the first Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism in recognition of his coverage of the civil rights struggle."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Most of Charles Moore's civil rights photography originally appeared in the weekly Life magazine, for which he freelanced from 1962 to 1972. In 1989, Mr. Moore, an Alabama native, received the first Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact Photojournalism in recognition of his coverage of the civil rights struggle.

Michael S. Durham was a Life reporter and editor from 1961 to 1972. He is the former editor of Americana magazine and author of two volumes of The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America. 

Andrew Young worked as a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. He has served two terms in the U.S. Congress, was U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and was mayor of Atlanta from 1981 to 1989.

Table of Contents

Preface	6	(2)
Charles Moore
Acknowledgments	8	(2)
Introduction	10	(4)
Andrew Young
The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore	14	(24)
Michael S. Durham
POWERFUL DAYS
Montgomery, 1958--1960	38	(12)
Oxford, Mississippi, 1962	50	(20)
The Freedom March, 1963	70	(18)
Birmingham, 1963	88	(32)
Voter Registration, Mississippi, 1963--1964	120	(22)
The Ku Klux Klan, North Carolina, 1965	142	(10)
The Selma March, 1965	152	(54)
Index	206