![]() ![]() Moore, the only photographer present that morning, continued to shoot as King was frogmarched to the local jailhouse. He trailed Martin Luther King as he preached, prayed, marched and, most famously, when he was arrested for obstruction on the steps of the courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1958. The historian and one-time adviser to President John F Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, said later that Moore's photographs "transformed the national mood and made legislation not just necessary, but possible".įrom 1958 to 1965, Moore recorded the often-tumultuous dramas that attended the rise of the civil rights movement in the deep south. When his images of policemen with dogs attacking civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 were published in Life magazine, they caused a national outcry that reverberated all the way to the Senate. The American photographer Charles Moore, who has died aged 79, not only recorded history he helped to change it. ![]()
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