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STEVE SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

  • 04 Jun — 05 Sep 20

With the publication of the two essays that form The Fire Next Time, 1962-3, James Baldwin created one of the most compelling moral arguments for change ever published in the US. One of the readers irrevocably affected by that essay was Steve Schapiro. He convinced LIFE magazine to let him publish a major story on Baldwin a few months later, and ended up as one of their most important documentarians of the movement, bringing the powerful visuals that communicated to millions of readers.

SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

I am a Man, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Other Activists March on Washington, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Martin Luther King, Jr. Close-Up at Selma March, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Dr. King Crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Martin Luther King Jr. (with Flag), Selma March, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“Vote,” Selma March, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Selma March, Flag, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Stop Police Killings, Selma, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Demonstrator and Troopers, Selma, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Boy With the Flag on Ground, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

James Baldwin, Harlem, New York, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

James Baldwin With Abandoned Child, Durham, North Carolina, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

James Baldwin, Colored Entrance Only, New Orleans, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

James Baldwin, Do You Love Me, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

James Baldwin, Jojo’s Fried Chicken, New Orleans, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

James Baldwin and Medger Evers, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Watching the Selma March, “Things go better with Coke”, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Church Clarksdale, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Brooklyn CORE Car Stall-In, 1964
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Martin Luther King Jr. and Group Entering Montgomery, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Freedom Now, Canton, Ohio, 1964
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Honor King, End Racism, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Jerome Smith at Church, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

John Lewis, Clarksdale Miss, 1963
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Marchers in the Rain, Selma March, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

MLK Singing Brown Church, Selma, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Martin Luther King, Jr. with Group (Forman, Abernathy, Douglas, Lewis) , 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Motel Room Hours After He Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

On the Road, Selma March, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Watching the Selma March From Balcony, Montgomery, Alabama, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Rosa Parks / Selma March, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Start of the Selma March, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Selma Organizer for March, 1965/em>
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Selma Nuns, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Selma Priest and Boy, 1965
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“We Shall Overcome” Summer of ‘64 Freedom Bus, Oxford, Ohio, 1964
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

White Women, Arkansas, 1951
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SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The Worst Is Yet to Come, New York, 1968
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