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79 pp.
| Houghton |
May, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-618-39740-X$$18.00
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To black-and-white photographs chronicling the history of African-American segregation and civil rights, Morrison appends captions imagining what those portrayed in each picture might be thinking. It's a dubious exercise, particularly in that several of the photos are of well-known people (Ruby Bridges, Elizabeth Eckford) perfectly capable of speaking for themselves. But the photographs, many of them signal images of the civil rights movement, are beautifully reproduced. Timeline.