For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

by Maurice Berger

Book Overview

A stunning visual history of the civil rights movement in America

In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their own eyes the brutality of segregation and racism, Americans would be more likely to support the cause of racial justice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300121318
• ISBN13: 9780300121315
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.1" x 10.4"