Charles Moore: I Fight with My Camera

Charles Moore: I Fight with My Camera

Charles Moore: I Fight with My Camera

Charles Moore, a photographer who braved physical peril to capture searing images — including lawmen using dogs and fire hoses against defenseless demonstrators — that many credit with helping to propel landmark civil rights legislation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/16moore.html

 

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Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous shots in the world (the dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, the Selma Bridge, and Martin Luther King’s arrest in Montgomery, among many others.)

Moore's photographs are credited with helping to quicken the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. said that Moore’s photographs transformed the national mood and made the legislation not just necessary, but possible.

Run time: 27 minutes,