Lens for Freedom: Civil Rights Photography by Steve Schapiro

During the turbulent 1960s, Steve Schapiro was there with his camera, capturing some of the most iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Schapiro was also one of the leading photographers to document the historic 1964 Freedom Summer campaign. Schapiro’s photographs documented the activities, training, meetings, and so much more that developed as part of the Freedom Summer efforts to help register Black voters in the deep South.