Notes

(1) Howard Chapnick, Truth Needs No Ally (Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1994), 154.

(2) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore (New York: Stewart, Tabouri and Chang, 1991), 14.

(3) Ibid., 35.

(4) In 1955, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that desegregation would be carried out under federal supervision. The movement's origins are often credited to the Supreme Court ruling and the murder later that year of Chicago teenager, Emmett Till in Mississippi. From chronology in: Stanford Wexler, The Civil Rights Movement, An Eyewitness History, (New York: Facts on File Books, 1993), 61.

(5) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1996), 13.

(6) Ibid., 96.

(7) "They Fight A Fire That Won't Go Out," Life, May 17, 1963, 26-36.

(8) Ibid., 36.

(9) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(10) Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait (New York: New American Library, 1964), 30, and The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 8.

(11) Tuscumbia was also the birthplace of Helen Keller.

(12) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 19.

(13) Ibid., 20.

(14 )Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(15) Ibid.

(16) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 32.

(17) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 12.

(18) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(19) Ibid.

(20) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(21) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 48.

(22) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(23) Ibid.

(24) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 49.

(25) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(26) “In the U.S., Mostly Quiet,” Life, September 15, 1958, 30.

(27) Life, September 15, 1958, 2.

(28) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(29) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(30) Howard Chapnick, Truth Needs No Ally, 154.

(31) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(32) Howard Chapnick, Truth Needs No Ally, 155.

(33) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 26.

(34) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(35) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 56.

(36) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(37) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 62.

(38) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(39) Ibid.

(40) Ibid.

(41) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 17.

(42) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(43) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 18.

(44 )Ibid.

(45) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(46) Ibid.

(47) “With The Besieged Marshals As The Wild Mob Attacks,” Life, October 12, 1962, 37.

(48) Life, November 2, 1958, 21.

(49) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 72.

(50) Ibid., 26.

(51) Martin Luther King in Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change (New York: Free Press, 1984), 264, in Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 93.

(52) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 27.

(53 )Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(54) Telephone interview, Carolyn McKinstry, May 25, 1998.

(55) Ibid.

(56) Telephone interview, Michael Durham, May 23, 1998.

(57) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 102.

(58)Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(59) Ibid.

(60) Life, June 7, 1963, 21.

(61) Telephone interview, Yukiko Launois, May 25, 1998.

(62) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 10, 98.

(63) Ibid, 96.

(64) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 32.

(65 )Ibid, 32.

(66) Telephone interview, Jeanette Chapnick, May 21, 1998.

(67) Telephone interview, Dave Stueber, May 25, 1998. Stueber is a photographer and art historian who has interviewed Moore and gave a presentation at Tulane University about the incident.

(68) Telephone interview, Jeanette Chapnick, May 21, 1998.

(69) Telephone interview, Michael Durham, May 23, 1998.

(70) Evers was shot in front of his home. His killer, Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist, would not be brought to justice for thirty years when he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994.

(71) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 7, 1998.

(72) Ibid.

(73) Ibid.

(74) Ibid.

(75) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 140.

(76) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 5, 1998.

(77) Ibid.

(78) Telephone interview, Michael Durham, May 23, 1998.

(79) Ibid.

(80) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 6, 1998.

(81) Ibid.

(82) Telephone interview, Michael Durham, May 23, 1998

(83) Ibid.

(84) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 118.

(85) Ibid, 117.

(86) Steven Kasher, The Civil Rights Movement, A Photographic History, 1954-68, 16.

(87) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 34.

(88) Stanford Wexler, The Civil Rights Movement, An Eyewitness History, (New York: Facts on File Books, 1993), 219.

(89) Ibid.

(90) Ibid, 220.

(91) "Selma: Beatings Start The Savage Season," Life, March 19, 1965.

(92) Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 33.

(93) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, June 18, 1998, and Michael Durham, Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 35-36.

(94) Telephone interview, Charles Moore, May 7, 1998.

(95) Howard Chapnick, Truth Needs No Ally, 155.

(96) Telephone interview, Carolyn McKinstry, May 25, 1998.

(97) Telephone interview, Michael Durham, May 23, 1998.

(98) Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, 10

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