Leonard Freed: Black In White America 1963-1965
Leonard Freed: Black In White America 1963-1965 The definitive collection of Leonard Freed's seminal and timely 1968 civil rights photo-essay, in a fresh and expanded editionIn 1962, white American…
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Leonard Freed: Black In White America 1963-1965
The definitive collection of Leonard Freed's seminal and timely 1968 civil rights photo-essay, in a fresh and expanded editionIn 1962, white American photojournalist Leonard Freed was on assignment in Berlin. The irony of this soldier defending the US on foreign soil while African Americans at home were fighting for their civil rights resonated with Freed. He photographed an African American soldier standing in front of the wall.
From 1963 to 1965, he captured the plight of African Americans and the great struggle for racial equality within a deeply segregated, racist society.This extraordinary collection of images--from Martin Luther King, Jr. greeting On his return to the States in 1963 he photographed the march on Washington and began a journey across the United States to document the anxiety and tension within Black communities in the North and South.