The Library of Congress (LOC) has acquired the archive of Bob Adelman, a photographer who helped document the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and continued to be active in social justice issues in the decades that followed, until his death in 2016. The trove, gifted by an anonymous donor, comprises 575,000 images, negatives, and slides, including 50,000 prints.
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No man is an island, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama. 1963 | Bob Adelman
Reverend Carter, expecting a visit from the Klan after he has dared to register to vote, stands guard on his front porch, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. 1964 | Bob Adelman
Honored guest, Rosa Parks, heroin of the Movement, awaits the opening remarks. Washington D.C. August 28, 1963 | Bob Adelman
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