Alabama Fire Department Aims High-Pressure Water Hoses at Civil Rights Demonstrators, Birmingham Protests, May, 1963
Gelatin Silver Print
9 1/4 × 13 in. (image size)
The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2013-002
Charles Moore
Charles Moore (1931–2010) was one of the most prominent photographers of the Civil Rights era, credited by many for influencing the nation’s attitudes towards civil rights and helping to expedite the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Moore worked on assignment first for the local Montgomery Advertiser, and later for the Associated Press and Life magazine, covering notable events such as the arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama in 1958; the violent reaction to the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962; the use of dogs and fire hoses on peaceful protesters in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963; and the march from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama in 1965. Moore also photographed conflicts in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Haiti, and Vietnam.