{"product_id":"a-civil-rights-journey-doris-derby","title":"A Civil Rights Journey - Doris Derby","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe story behind Derby’s wonderful, intimate pictures is enmeshed with the rest of her extraordinary life … Her experience also provides a revealing snapshot of the rupture that America went through in the 1960s and 70s\u003c\/strong\u003e.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e– The Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMany of [Derby’s] photographs from this time feel very joyful – full of positive energy and activity – or otherwise depict everyday scenes, quite removed from the Civil Rights protests and all the violence the black community was experiencing\u003c\/strong\u003e” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e– \u003c\/em\u003eApollo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDerby’s photographs capture small, private moments but carry the weight of the momentous groundswell of change for a people who wanted and deserved better.\u003c\/strong\u003e” \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e– Storied\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Civil Rights Journey\u003c\/em\u003e presents the astonishing archive of Dr Doris Derby: photographer, activist, and professor of anthropology. Active throughout the Civil Rights Movements of the mid twentieth century in the southern United States, particularly Mississippi, Derby acted as a photographer, organiser and teacher, making photographs of the intimate and human side of the everyday struggle for survival and human rights. She photographed both the organisation of political events, meetings, and funerals, alongside the literacy, co-operative and community theatre programmes, many of which she founded, and encountered much danger and tragedy along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere we see the speeches and protests that gave the movement its defining moments, as well as vital figures including Muhammad Ali, Alice Walker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Jesse Jackson. We also see classrooms and church halls, doctors and secretaries: everyday scenes of joy, frustration, curiosity, and connection, in which the determination and collective actions and resolve and actions of the movement are equally expressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis extensive volume presents Derby’s images in sequences that between them document rural and urban poverty, offer lucid ethnographies of particular streets and families, track the day-to-day lives of African American children growing up in the Mississippi Delta, and bear witness to such pivotal events as the Jackson State University shooting, the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., and the 1968 Democratic Convention. Derby’s photographs offer us an invaluably rich portrait of a historical moment whose effects have defined today’s world and issues a vital reassertion of the work that remains to be done. Derby recounts the events photographed in extensive texts which accompany the images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdited by Doris Derby, in collaboration with Hannah Collins and Gregory Harris\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdited recordings of conversations between Doris Derby and Hannah Collins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u2028Paperback with flaps\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e21.5 x 28.5cm, 168 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e978-1-913620-44-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOctober 2021\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42127522332896,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/cover628_860x_f4e0cc05-bec6-4e7a-8e87-7cc4bfdd7cad.jpg?v=1642032942","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/en\/products\/a-civil-rights-journey-doris-derby","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}