Category: Eye

• {Eye} Civil Rights Childhood : Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks by: Katharine Capshaw

  

  Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the black child has been—and continues to be—a social agent that demands […]

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  December 1, 2014

  Black History, Eye

  1963 Birmingham church bombings, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Childhood : Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks, Civil Rights Childhood : Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks by: Katharine Capshaw, Emmett Till, June Jordan, Katharine Capshaw, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, University of Minnesota Press