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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 12:00 PM Mar 2016

Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Dies at Age 85

Source: Associated Press

Photographer Bob Adelman, who documented the civil rights movement across the Deep South, has died at age 85.

Miami Beach Police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez says Adelman was pronounced dead at his home Saturday afternoon. An autopsy is pending and Rodriguez says Adelman's death remains under investigation.

Adelman volunteered his services as a photographer to the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and other civil rights organizations in the 1960s. The work put him on the front lines of the civil rights movement, frequently in the company of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom he called "Doc."

Adelman said in 2014 that the demonstrations he covered now seem like momentous events, but at the time they didn't get much news coverage unless there was violence.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/civil-rights-photographer-bob-adelman-dies-age-85-37841041



By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — Mar 22, 2016, 11:32 AM ET

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Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Dies at Age 85 (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2016 OP
Some of Adelman's most iconic photographs csziggy Mar 2016 #1
Is that Sammy Davis Jr. at lower center of top photo? longship Mar 2016 #3
I think it is! He was there that day csziggy Mar 2016 #6
"didn't get much news coverage unless there was violence." BumRushDaShow Mar 2016 #2
RIP. blackspade Mar 2016 #4
Thank you for posting. yardwork Mar 2016 #5

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
6. I think it is! He was there that day
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 01:51 PM
Mar 2016

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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Actor Sammy Davis, Jr. among the crowd.], 08/28/1963
Italiano: Alla marcia per i diritti civili del 1963
Date 28 August 1963
Source NARA - ARC Identifier: 542050 (use http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/basic_search.jsp and search Sammy Davis crowd)
Author U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 - ca. 1978)
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BumRushDaShow

(127,281 posts)
2. "didn't get much news coverage unless there was violence."
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 12:36 PM
Mar 2016

That is still the case today.

R.I.P. And thank you for documenting what the M$M at the time didn't think was important.

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