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Article: The Life Magazine civil rights photography of Charles Moore 1958-1965

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January 1, 1999
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On September 3, 1958, Charles Moore, a young photographer for the Montgomery Advertiser,

witnessed an argument between the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and two policeman on the steps of the City Recorders' Court. Moore's good fortune that day was in stark contrast with King's. Moore was the only member of the media to witness King's subsequent arrest, and his picture of the local minister being manhandled during the police booking became one of the most significant photographs of the civil rights movement.' King was taken to the back of the jail where he was frisked, roughed-up, and tossed into a cell.2

When Life picked up the picture from the Associated Press wire on September 15, it ...

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