I Am A Man – Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1970 Ferris Iii

I Am a ManPhotographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970\nAuthor(s): William R. Ferris, Lonnie G. Bunch III\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496831620, 978-1496831620\nSynopsis\nIn the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith as the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi; the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; and the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis - where Martin Luther King was assassinated - rank as cardinal events in black Americans' fight for their civil rights.\n\n The photographs featured in I Am A Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, [tel] bear witness to the courage of protesters who faced unimaginable violence and brutality as well as the quiet determination of.