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Photographer Charles Moore's haunting images of freedom marchers attacked by police dogs and fire hoses are seared into our nation's conscience. The documentary is based on those and other pictures that Moore took during the civil rights movement. Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous shots in the world (the dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, the Selma Bridge, and Martin Luther King's arrest in Montgomery, among many others.) His photographs are credited with helping to quicken the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The noted historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. said that Moore's photographs transformed the national mood and made the legislation not just necessary, but possible. This is his story.

Length: 26 minutes, 46 seconds.

English