Birmingham, Alabama, Charles Moore, 1963
In the summer of 1963, Birmingham was boiling over as black residents and their allies in the civil rights movement repeatedly clashed with a white power structure intent on maintaining segregation—and willing to do whatever that took. A photographer for the Montgomery Advertiser and life, Charles Moore was a native Alabaman and son of a Baptist preacher, appalled by the violence inflicted on African Americans in the name of law and order. Moore’s image of a police dog tearing into a black protester’s pants captured the routine, even casual, brutality of segregation.