The Untold Journey Of Civil Rights Photographers

By Brian Ellison

Published July 3, 2014 at 9:00 AM CDT

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Matt Herron

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Photographer Matt Herron is pursued by sheriff's deputy as he steps out of march line to take a picture.

Matt Herron

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Summer volunteer carpenter, Jim Boebel, and a local resident post a shotgun watch at the community center against a fire bomb threat by local whites. Threats were common that summer and local men took turns guarding the community every night.

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St.Paul's Missionary Baptist Church, summer 1964. Young men and boys from congregation in their Sunday best, stand in glade behind church.

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Summer volunteers, SNCC workers and local students singing freedom songs at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.

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Abandoned barn, Mississippi Delta near Lexington, winter, 1963.

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Wallace supporters at political rally in rural Georgia fairgrounds.

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Alabama segregationist and Governor, George Wallace with political henchmen surveys crowd at counrty stadium before political rally.

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Edie Black, volunteer from Smith College, with students she teaches in a freedom school at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.

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Federal Voter Registrars enforce Voting Rights Act pf 1965 Recruiting poster of the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan.

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Thursday's Up to Date brings the never before told story of powerful events witnessed by five young photographers during the momentous summer of 1964 in the segregated South. Guest host Brian Ellison talks with Matt Herron, one of the photographers and author of Mississippi Eyes: The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary Project, "the only book to provide a firsthand account of what it was actually like to photograph the civil rights struggle in the Deep South."

Guest: Matt Herron is the Author of "Mississippi Eyes".