{"product_id":"mississippi-eyes-the-story-and-photography-of-the-southern-documentary-project-9781933945187","title":"Mississippi Eyes: The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary Project","description":"\u003ci\u003eMississippi Eyes \u003c\/i\u003eis the chronicle of the events and the powerful witness of five young photographers in The Southern Documentary Project, working during the pivotal summer of 1964 in the segregated South. Together they captured the sometimes violent, sometimes miraculous process of social change as segregation resisted then gave way to a new beginning toward social justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With 160 black-and-white photographs, this chronicle begins in the winter mud of the Mississippi Delta and ends in Atlantic City's convention hall as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation challenged the official Mississippi delegates to the National Democratic Convention. The Southern Documentary Project was the brainchild of Matt Herron, a budding photojournalist who had moved with his family to Mississippi in 1963 to work in civil rights and shoot picture stories for \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLook\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing on advice from his friend, the noted documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, he pulled together a shoestring budget, recruited photographers with civil rights experience, and completed the summer with a file of unforgettable photographs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Along the way, Southern Documentary photographers suffered beatings and nearly died at the hands of a sheriff's posse in Selma, Alabama. They documented a moving service in a sharecropper's church and captured inspirational encounters between Ivy League student teachers and black children in Freedom Schools. They followed the heartbreaking struggle of a young boy to confront the murder of his older brother by Klansmen. \u003ci\u003eMississippi Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is the only book to provide a firsthand account of what it was actually like to photograph the civil rights struggle in the Deep South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\/Talking Finge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933945187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.79h x 10.86w x 0.69d","brand":"Matt Herron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51990897787061,"sku":"9781933945187","price":38.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f2078d8b-4107-4631-9572-0e4ac9ecbdc9.jpg?v=1762838243","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mississippi-eyes-the-story-and-photography-of-the-southern-documentary-project-9781933945187","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}