The Power of Pictures
May 01, 2022
2 minutes
by Christine J. Cook
There is an old saying: A picture is worth a thousand words. Civil rights leaders knew that images worked better than words for educating the nation about conditions in the segregated South.
Photographs of civil rights events had a powerful impact. In 1957, many white people in Little Rock, Arkansas, protested the integration of
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