Civil Rights Movement and Photojournalism

-Charles Moore

In Birmingham, anti-segregation demonstrators lie on the sidewalk to protect themselves from firemen with high PRESSURE water hoses. One disgusted fireman said later, "We're supposed to fight fires, not people."

Birth of Movement

April 4, 1961: A single, dangling lightbulb and a coal-burning stove show the conditions at some black schools in Jefferson County. Birmingham schools were not integrated until September 1963.

Alabama, 1960.
-Charles Moore

After black students were refused service in the whites-only cafeteria in Montgomery, a white man swings a baseball bat at a shopper, while another strikes a black woman in the background. Charles Moore was RUNNING across the street when he took this picture.









These photographs were during the Ci taken vil Rights Movement, when Black people was discriminated   and suffered many humiliations. White people tried to stop them through violence; however, black people didn't fight back. Most of these photographs were taken in Alabama, where the movement started and were taken by white and black photojournalists that were in favor of black people rights. Some pictures were not published because they represented shame for the whites, but others were published in order to demonstrate what was going on. The effect was enormous; many people began to support the movement for blacks' rights. These photographs are very important and memorable because the show how black people suffered and how they intelligently and non violently fought for they rights and changed society entirely.