History > USA > Civil rights > Activists

Robert Adelman   1930-2016

Mr. Adelman

at the 1976 Democratic convention in New York.

Photograph: Jill Krementz,

All Rights Reserved

Bob Adelman, Whose Vivid Photos Captured Civil Rights Struggle, Dies at 85

NYT

March 21, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/
arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html

Bob  Adelman in 2014,

before a photo he took of Malcom X

during the civil rights movement.

Photograph: J Pat Carter/

Associated Press

Bob Adelman, Whose Vivid Photos Captured Civil Rights Struggle, Dies at 85

NYT

MARCH 21, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/
arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s body

being carried to Morehouse College in Atlanta,

on a mule-drawn wagon accompanied

by his aides dressed in denim attire.

The wagon, mules and denim clothes

symbolized the Poor People’s Campaign.

April 1968.

Photograph: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site,

Courtesy of Bob Adelman

Bob Adelman: From Civil Rights to Making a Difference

NYT

Mar. 21, 2016

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/
bob-adelman-civil-rights-obit-photos/

Robert Melvin Adelman    1930-2016

freelance photographer

whose vivid images

of unspeakable brutality and despair

brought segregation

and the civil rights movement

home to Americans in the 1960s

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/
arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/
arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-
dies-at-85.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/
arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-
who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/
bob-adelman-civil-rights-obit-photos/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/20/
471195573/bob-adelman-who-photographed-iconic-civil-rights-moments-dies

https://www.npr.org/2008/01/14/
18079739/photographing-civil-rights-history

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jan/03/
photography

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