July marked the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Yet recent photographs taken in Ferguson, Missouri, bear a chilling resemblance to the images of protests, riots, and police clashes in the 1950s and '60s, when legalized segregation and voter intimidation were still acceptable in much of the country.
Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement helped galvanize those outside the South against legalized discrimination, exposing them to the indignities suffered under a system of state-backed racism. And these emblematic photographs wouldn't exist without the brave photographers committed to social justice whose efforts at documenting the movement helped it to succeed.
(thanks Hunter)
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