Research Catalog
[Photographs]
- Title
- [Photographs] / Charmian Reading.
- Author
- Reading, Charmian
- Publication
- [1996?]
- ©1966-1996
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Picture | Use in library | Sc Photo Portfolio (Reading, C.) | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Description
- 6 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white; 21 x 26 cm
- Summary
- Depictions mostly of civil rights activities in Mississippi during 1966, consisting of views of patients and psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint at a Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) clinic in the Mississippi Delta region; a view of SNCC worker Willie Blue leading an elderly African American couple to voter registration in Charleston, Mississippi during the time of the James Meredith march; and a candid view of activist Fannie Lou Hamer leading others in song during the Meredith march. Also depicted is activist Ella Baker waiting to address a Women's Day rally in Union Square, New York City, in 1975.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1990-1999.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1990-1999.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- All photographs bear photographer's hand stamp on verso; all items bear handwritten captions on verso.
- Images captured in 1966 and 1975, and printed in 1996.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography (note)
- Charmian Reading was an American civil rights era photographer noted for her depictions of the continued hardships faced by African Americans in the Deep South in 1966 following the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Portfolio (Reading, C.)
- OCLC
- 1276811701
- Author
- Reading, Charmian, photographer.
- Title
- [Photographs] / Charmian Reading.
- Production
- [1996?]
- Copyright Date
- ©1966-1996
- Type of Content
- still image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Terms Of Use
- Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography
- Charmian Reading was an American civil rights era photographer noted for her depictions of the continued hardships faced by African Americans in the Deep South in 1966 following the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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- Sc Photo Portfolio (Reading, C.)