For all the world to see : visual culture and the struggle for civil rights /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Berger, Maurice, 1956-
Corporate Author:	International Center of Photography
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Race relations > Art > Exhibitions. Art and race > Exhibitions. Civil rights movements > United States > Exhibitions. Civil rights movements > United States > Pictorial works > Exhibitions. African Americans in art > Exhibitions. African Americans in mass media > Exhibitions. Mass media > Social aspects > United States > Exhibitions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: weapons of choice
It keeps on rollin' along: the status quo
The new "new Negro": the culture of positive images
Plates
"Let the world see what I've seen": evidence and persuasion
Guess who's coming to dinner: broadcasting race
Epilogue: in our lives we are whole: the pictures of everyday life.