The Home of Myrlie and Medgar Evers, Jackson, Ms., 2018 Field Secretary of the NAACP, Medgar Evers was a major force in the early days of the civil rights movement. He was shot in his driveway by Byron De La Beckwith. His wife and children were in the house watching JFKs speech on America's moral crisis and call for racial tolerance. After two early mistrials, Beckwith was finally convicted 30 years after the murder.
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The Tallahatchie River, Greenwood, Mississippi, 2017
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Sharecropper Houses, Greenwood, MS., 2018
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Washington St., Selma, Al., 2018 In the 1930s, as part of the WPA, Walker Evans photographed in and around Selma. On my first visit there in 2017, I felt that except for a few things I saw, much remained the same.
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Veteran's Grave, Greenwood, MS., 2018. In the background is the park where James Meredith camped during his March Against Fear in 1966. Stokely Carmichael, a SNCC organizer, gave his famous speech about "Black Power" and was arrested here. Carmichael's message represented a rejection of the teachings and style of the Reverend King, whose advocacy of nonviolent civil disobedience and the belief that blacks and whites had to work together toward racial reconciliation that Carmichael himself had once championed in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Spanish Moss, Selma, Al., 2018
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The Corner of Rosa Parks and Jefferson Davis Avenues, Montgomery, Al. 2018.
