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Section 3: Texts

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “An Intimate View of MLK Through the Lens of a Friend,” Madison Horne, History.com, 2021
    • Artist Charles Moore, Charles Moore, International Center of Photography
    • “No More: The Children of Birmingham 1963 and the Turning Point of the Civil Rights Movement,” McKay and Miranda Jessop, YouTube, 2013
    • Police Using Dogs to Attack Civil Rights Demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama, Charles Moore, International Center of Photography
    • “Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics,” Society of Professional Journalists
  • Unit Reader
    • “Introduction,” excerpt from Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle, Leigh Raiford, The University of North Carolina Press, 2011
    • “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., Writers House, 1963
    • “What the Still Photo Still Does Best,” Hank Klibanoff, The New York Times Company, 2010

Optional

  • Digital Access
    • “7 Gordon Parks Images That Changed American Attitudes,” Rebecca Fulleylove, Google Arts and Culture
    • “Same Date, 8 Years Apart: From Emmett Till’s Murder to ‘I Have a Dream,’ in Photos,” Madison Horne, History.com, 2021
    • “Segregation in the South, 1956,” Gordon Parks, Gordon Parks Foundation