Charles Moore photographed the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the US. He died recently. He worked first for the Montgomery Advertiser and later for Life Magazine. He was a native Alabamian who "recogonized the significance of the civil rights movement". He was the only photographer when Martin Luther King was arrested in Montgomery in 1958; his photo showed two white police officers "hustling away King, whose right arm was wrenched behind his back". His photos covered the riots at U of Mississippi when James Meredith tried to register and in 1963 he got pictures of black children and teens marching in Birmingham. "They were met by police with snarling dogs and firefighters who pounded them with streams of water". In 1965 in Selma his pictures showed state troopers in gas masks "tear-gassing voting rights marchers" during what was known as "Bloody Sunday".
(Source: "News photographer documented civil rights movement" by Jay Reeves of The AP. In The Virginian Pilot on 3/16/10).
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