1. Analyzing Images of the Civil Rights Movement: A look into the lens that documented a turbulent time in American History

2. Warm Up What do pictures tell us? What kind of document are photographs? Why should historians use photographs to gain a greater understanding of an event? How important do you think the media was to the Civil Rights Movement?

3. Charles Moore Probably the most famous photojournalist during the Movement. His photography is iconic This is Charles Moore during his coverage of the desegregation at Ole Miss http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/m oore/aboutCharlesMoore.shtml

4. What Moore did Charles Moore immersed himself into the movement “The most influential pictures of Moore’s career were taken over five days beginning on May 3 [1963]. Birmingham was considered the nation’s most segregated city, and the photographer had a hunch that he and Durham should go to the city after hearing reports on the radio about escalating tensions there. Five minutes after the journalists arrived in Kelly Ingram Park, the scene of anti-segregation demonstrations, firemen had been ordered by Police Commissioner Bull Connor to bring out their hoses to contain the swelling crowd.” – http://www.viscom.ohiou.edu/oldsite/moore.site/Pages/AboutMoore.html

5. Birmingham Fire turns the hoses on protesters

6. Further impact of Moore He also captured "Bloody Sunday" -- the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery -- as a black man was beaten by a white police officer. Instead of shooting from afar, Moore always used a short lens, immersing himself in the very scene he wanted to capture. His close-up pictures were praised by former New York Sen. Jacob Javits as helping "to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

7. Bloody Sunday

8. Impact of the Media According to Leigh Raiford, a research associate at the John Hope Franklin Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, "Social movement photography," such as the photography done by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s, was crucial in forming the Civil Rights movement's political identity, mobilizing people and expanding support.

9. SNCC Members undergo Passive Resistance Training

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