Don Rutledge, Missions Photographer, Dies

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Don Rutledge, Missions Photographer, Dies

Renowned photojournalist Don Rutledge, who told the global story of missions through his camera lens for several generations of Southern Baptists, died at his home near Richmond early today.

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/35062

His reputation quickly grew, and he became internationally known when he shot the pictures for “Black Like Me,” John Howard Griffin’s 1961 book about his experiences of racism in the last days of the Jim Crow-era South when Griffin darkened his skin to appear black

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