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Cecil Williams & Civil Rights Photography — Talk & Photos with Author Claudia Smith Brinson
As a child Cecil Williams began photographing civil rights events. He kept doing so. He photographed Thurgood Marshall in Charleston for Briggs v. Elliott. He photographed mass arrests and tear-gas use (Orangeburg, 1960). He photographed protests at a segregated bowling alley and the aftermath when state troopers killed three students and wounded an untold number, on campus, in the Orangeburg Massacre (Orangeburg, 1968). He photographed the perceived end of the 1960’s protest movement (Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-69). How do we know what happened? Photographs tell us, but they have to be seen. Let’s talk about that.