{"product_id":"injustice-in-focus-the-civil-rights-photography-of-cecil-williams-9781643364377","title":"Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to violence perpetrated by White law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor and award-winning journalist Claudia Smith Brinson and photographer Williams combine forces in \u003ci\u003eInjustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams\u003c\/i\u003e. Together they document civil rights activism in the 1940s through the 1960s in South Carolina. Williams was there, in South Carolina, to witness and document pivotal movements such as then-NAACP legal counsel Thurgood Marshall's arrival in Charleston to argue the landmark case \u003ci\u003eBriggs v. Elliott\u003c\/i\u003e and the aftermath of the infamous Orangeburg Massacre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith author Brinson's rich research, interviews, and prose, and eighty stunning photographs from Williams's collection, \u003ci\u003eInjustice in Focus \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a firsthand account of South Carolina's fight for civil rights and describes Williams's life behind the camera as a documentarian of the civil rights movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643364377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.30h x 9.22w x 0.94d","brand":"Claudia Smith Brinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45111938678965,"sku":"9781643364377","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e9e207b8-e2ef-4861-9184-e8837d714338.jpg?v=1739887677","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/injustice-in-focus-the-civil-rights-photography-of-cecil-williams-9781643364377","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}