STEVE SCHAPIRO: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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.

I am a Man, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
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Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Other Activists March on Washington, 1963
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Close-Up at Selma March, 1965
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Dr. King Crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth, 1965
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Martin Luther King Jr. (with Flag), Selma March, 1965
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“Vote,” Selma March, 1965
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Selma March, Flag, 1965
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Stop Police Killings, Selma, 1965
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Demonstrator and Troopers, Selma, 1965
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Boy With the Flag on Ground, 1965
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James Baldwin, Harlem, New York, 1963
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James Baldwin With Abandoned Child, Durham, North Carolina, 1963
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James Baldwin, Colored Entrance Only, New Orleans, 1963
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James Baldwin, Do You Love Me, 1963
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James Baldwin, Jojo’s Fried Chicken, New Orleans, 1963
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James Baldwin and Medger Evers, 1963
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Watching the Selma March, “Things go better with Coke”, 1965
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Church Clarksdale, 1963
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Brooklyn CORE Car Stall-In, 1964
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Group Entering Montgomery, 1965
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Freedom Now, Canton, Ohio, 1964
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Honor King, End Racism, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
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Jerome Smith at Church, 1965
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John Lewis, Clarksdale Miss, 1963
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Marchers in the Rain, Selma March, 1965
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MLK Singing Brown Church, Selma, 1965
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Martin Luther King, Jr. with Group (Forman, Abernathy, Douglas, Lewis) , 1965
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Motel Room Hours After He Was Shot, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
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On the Road, Selma March, 1965
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Watching the Selma March From Balcony, Montgomery, Alabama, 1965
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Rosa Parks / Selma March, 1965
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Start of the Selma March, 1965
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Selma Organizer for March, 1965/em>
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Selma Priest and Boy, 1965
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“We Shall Overcome” Summer of ‘64 Freedom Bus, Oxford, Ohio, 1964
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White Women, Arkansas, 1951
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The Worst Is Yet to Come, New York, 1968
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