Marching West – Photography and the Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement - Karin L. Stanford

During a 1963 speech to a crowd of nearly forty thousand at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the question of how Angelenos could contribute to the civil rights movement: "The most important thing that you can do is to set Los Angeles free, because you have segregation and discrimination here, and police brutality." Marching West illuminates the dynamic history of civil rights activism in Los Angeles and explores how the medium of photography both witnessed and advanced... Zobrazit více