Charles Moore

Note to editors/photographers: Photographs using flash will be allowed at all times during the lecture; however, no flash will be allowed while the video is playing.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Photojournalist Charles Moore, who captured some of the most recognizable images of the Civil Rights Movement, will speak at The University of Alabama School of Law at 11 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 30 in the Moot Courtroom. His topic will be “Pictures That Made a Difference: The Civil Rights Movement.”

Moore’s photographs, taken while working in the South and for Life magazine, were instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He was awarded the first Kodak Impact in Photojournalism Award for his work.

Moore began photographing the Civil Rights Movement in 1958 as a photographer for the Montgomery Advertiser. His striking pictures of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest were distributed nationwide by the Associated Press, and one was published in Life magazine. Over the next seven years, Moore made some of the most significant pictures of the Civil Rights Movement. As a contract photographer for Life magazine, he traveled the South to cover the evolving struggle.

Charles Moore's famous photos of the firehoses in Birmingham in 1963 (c Charles Moore, 1963).

Major events that Moore covered included King’s early efforts to desegregate Montgomery, the violent reaction to the enrollment of the first black student at the University of Mississippi, the Freedom March from Tennessee to Mississippi, the campaign to desegregate Birmingham, voter registration drives in Mississippi, Ku Klux Klan activities in North Carolina and the march from Selma to Montgomery.

Admission to the presentation is free. For more information about the program, contact Jennifer McCracken at 348-5195. For more details about Moore and to view some of his photographs, go to www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/aboutCharlesMoore.shtml.