{"product_id":"this-light-of-ours-activist-photographers-of-the-civil-rights-movement","title":"This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based disenfranchisement from within the movement. Unlike images produced by photojournalists  who covered breaking news events  these photographers lived within the movement-primarily within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) framework-and documented its activities by focusing on the student activists and local people who together made it happen. The core of the book is a selection of 150 black-and-white photographs  representing the work of photographers Bob Adelman  George Ballis  Bob Fitch  Bob Fletcher  Matt Herron  David Prince  Herbert Randall  Maria Varela  and Tamio Wakayama. Images are grouped around four movement themes and convey SNCCs organizing strategies  resolve in the face of violence  impact on local and national politics  and influence on the nations consciousness. The photographs and texts of This Light of Ours remind us that the movement was a battleground  that the battle was successfully fought by thousands of \"ordinary\" Americans among whom were the nations courageous youth  and that the movements moral vision and impact continue to shape our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946992693301,"sku":"ByrdShop_1617031712","price":227.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781617031717.jpg?v=1769976441","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/this-light-of-ours-activist-photographers-of-the-civil-rights-movement","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}