MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Photographer Bob Adelman was a witness to history, documenting the civil rights movement across the Deep South.
The most prominent face among Adelman's extensive archive belongs to a man he casually calls "Doc" — better known as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nova Southeastern University's Museum of Art-Fort Lauderdale has assembled 150 of Adelman's photographs for an exhibit marking the half-century since the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964.
Museum director Bonnie Clearwater says the exhibit's title, "The Movement," refers to both the demonstrations and Adelman's perspective as a photographer, watching the descendants of enslaved people exercise their freedoms.
Flipping through images shot during a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., Adelman said events now considered momentous originally were buried then in newspapers' back pages.
The most prominent face among Adelman's extensive archive belongs to a man he casually calls "Doc" — better known as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nova Southeastern University's Museum of Art-Fort Lauderdale has assembled 150 of Adelman's photographs for an exhibit marking the half-century since the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964.
Museum director Bonnie Clearwater says the exhibit's title, "The Movement," refers to both the demonstrations and Adelman's perspective as a photographer, watching the descendants of enslaved people exercise their freedoms.
Flipping through images shot during a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., Adelman said events now considered momentous originally were buried then in newspapers' back pages.