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For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
For All the World to See Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Author: Maurice Berger
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300121315
ISBN-10: 0300121318
Publication Date: 4/20/2010
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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