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050 00 $aP94.5.A372$bU534 2010
082 00 $a302.23089/96073$222
100 1 $aBerger, Maurice,$d1956-
245 10 $aFor all the world to see :$bvisual culture and the struggle for civil rights /$cMaurice Berger ; foreword by Thulani Davis.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axv, 207 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c26 cm.
500 $a"In collaboration with: Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C."
500 $aRelated exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, New York, May 21-Sept. 12, 2010.
520 $aIn 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. "Let the world see what I've seen," was her reply. The publication of the photograph inspired a generation of activists to join the civil rights movement. Despite this extraordinary episode, the story of visual culture's role in the modern civil rights movement is rarely included in its history. This is the first comprehensive examination of the ways images mattered in the struggle, and it investigates a broad range of media including photography, television, film, magazines, newspapers, and advertising. These images were ever present and diverse: the startling footage of southern white aggression and black suffering that appeared night after night on television news programs; the photographs of black achievers and martyrs in Negro periodicals; the humble snapshot, no less powerful in its ability to edify and motivate. In each case, the war against racism was waged through pictures, millions of points of light, millions of potent weapons that forever changed a nation. This book allows us to see and understand the crucial role that visual culture played in forever changing a nation.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword / by Thulani Davis -- 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.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in mass media.
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aVisual communication$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMass media$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
710 2 $aInternational Center of Photography.