Civil Rights Childhood – Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks

Civil Rights ChildhoodPicturing Liberation in African American Photobooks\nAuthor(s): Katharine Capshaw\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816694044, 978-0816694044\nSynopsis\nChildhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaws Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the black child has been-and continues to be-a social agent that demands change. \n\nBecause children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education had a powerful effect on the fight for civil rights. In the iconography of Emmett Till and the girls murdered in the 1963 Birmingham church bombings, Capshaw explores the function of chil.