Charles Moore Dies; Depicted Rights Battles – Lens

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Charles Moore Dies; Depicted Rights Battles

Charles Moore, who died last week, took some of the most memorable photographs of the civil rights struggle.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/parting-5/

The photographs are still shocking.

In one, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — America’s foremost advocate of nonviolent social change — is manhandled like a common thug in a Montgomery, Ala., police station.