Sleet’s photo of Bernice King tearfully clasping her mother inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her father had been the pastor for the last eight years won a Pulitzer Prize, making Sleet the first African American journalist to win that award.
Tag: Civil Rights Movement
Emmett Till, 1955
Photos from Emmett Till’s open-casket funeral underscored the shocking inhumane crime and galvanized the Civil Rights movement
Rosa Parks in Montgomery Bus
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but […]