Matt Herron, Whose Camera Chronicled a Movement, Dies at 89 – The New York Times

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Matt Herron, Whose Camera Chronicled a Movement, Dies at 89

As a magazine photojournalist, he immersed himself in the South as a witness to civil rights marches and clashes. He was killed when the glider he was piloting crashed.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/matt-herron-whose-camera-chronicled-a-movement-dies-at-89.html

Matt Herron, a photojournalist who vividly memorialized the most portentous and promising moments from the front lines of the 1960s civil rights movement in the Deep South, died on Aug. 7 when a glider he was piloting crashed in Northern California. He was 89.