Matt Herron

Matt Herron (1931–2020) was an activist photographer whose photographs appeared in virtually every major picture magazine in the world. He curated the CDEA traveling exhibition This Light of Ours and directed Take Stock, an organization licensing the use of movement images for scholars and the media.

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This Light of Ours

Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

Edited by Leslie G. Kelen; Foreword by Julian Bond; Afterword by Clayborne Carson
University Press of Mississippi

An astonishing visual record taken by photographers directly engaged in the struggle

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Mississippi Eyes

The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary Project

By Matt Herron; Foreword by John Dittmer
University Press of Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi/Talking Fingers Publications

In words and pictures, the incredible story of photographers documenting the Freedom Summer of 1964 and social change throughout the Deep South

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