Race, Civil Rights and Photography – The New York Times

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Race, Civil Rights and Photography

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders relied on the power of photographs to persuade, enrage and motivate.

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“The world seldom believes the horror stories of history until they are documented via the mass media,” Dr. King wrote in a letter to the novelist Harold Courlander in 1961.