Doris Derby, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies at 82 – The New York Times

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Doris Derby, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies at 82

She was an artist who was studying anthropology when she became an activist in the civil rights movement and a rare woman to document Black life in photos.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/arts/doris-derby-dead.html

“I had a quest to show what the average person was doing,” she told the Southern Oral History Program in 2011, part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. “I had a quest to show our culture in total, not just a little bit, or negative stereotypes.”

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