North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South Rusha Art and Illusion

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North of Dixie: Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South Rusha Art and IllusionMark Speltz With a preface by Deborah Willis The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selmaleaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police