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North of Dixie - Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
Mark Speltz
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Description for North of Dixie - Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
Hardback. The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs. Num Pages: 160 pages, 100 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 257 x 18. Weight in Grams: 980.
The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police brutality, and job discrimination from Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles to Seattle, Des Moines, Wichita, and Spokane. With images by photojournalists, artists, and activists including Bob Adelman, Charles Brittin, Leonard Freed, Diana Davies, ... Read more
The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police brutality, and job discrimination from Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles to Seattle, Des Moines, Wichita, and Spokane. With images by photojournalists, artists, and activists including Bob Adelman, Charles Brittin, Leonard Freed, Diana Davies, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
980g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606065051
SKU
V9781606065051
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About Mark Speltz
MARK SPELTZ is an author and historian who writes about civil rights photography, vernacular architecture, and Wisconsin culture and history. He is currently a senior historian at American Girl in Madison, Wisconsin. DEBORAH WILLIS is chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She has been the recipient of ... Read more
Reviews for North of Dixie - Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South
With over one hundred images, many never before published, North of Dixie offers a complex and inclusive view of the civil rights era in America.
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African American Intellectual History Society A hard-hitting photographic look at the fight for civil rights.
On Milwaukee This compendium demonstrates how many mid-century civil rights struggles were waged far above the Mason-Dixon line. ... Read more