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Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle
by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings
This famous era, the Civil Rights Movement, marks neither the beginning nor the end of the African-American fight for equality, and this book tells, through photographs, the story of the struggle in its widest scope for the first time. From the bonds of slavery to Civil Rights, from the Deep South to the northern metropolis, from the Harlem Renaissance to the riots in South Central L.A., this book reveals the African-American struggle for equality from the first photographic records in the nineteenth century all the way to the present. The photographs reveal the journey in all its complexity and nuance. They cover the struggle in its many different aspects: political, social, economic, and cultural, showing the incredible courage and determination of people fighting for a common goal, as well as the internal conflicts and contradictions.
