Steven Kasher, who lives in Manhattan, is a photographer, writer, and curator. He organized the traveling exhibition "Appeal to This Age: Photography of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968." Myrlie Evers-Williams is past chairwoman of the NAACP and widow of the civil rights activist Medgar Evers.

Praise for The Civil Rights Movement: "The images...hold a mirror up to Americans, white and black, and what they show us is both terrifying and profound. We were so bad and we were so good; it makes you sad, and it makes you proud." -- Chicago Tribune "This book, which collects some 150 black-and-white photos, is indeed a history, offering many lesser-known images that also resonate. See...a bespectacled Elizabeth Eckford, one of the "Little Rock Nine," walk stoically ahead of jeering white students; Julian Bond pose with fellow SNCC volunteers, seemingly too young to help change history; and a Mississippi-delta organizing house that has painted the word Freedom on a cross burned by the Klan. Kasher's chapter introductions are lucid overviews of the movement, while the captions--some of which reproduce the original, stilted wire-service captions--are also effective and informative. A moving tribute." -- Publisher's Weekly

• Table of Contents from: The Civil Rights Movement Foreword by Myrlie Evers-Williams Introduction: "Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare" The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955: "My Soul Is Rested" Little Rock Central High, 1957, and the University of Mississippi, 1962: "Don't Let Them See You Cry" Sit-ins and Freedom Rides, 1960--62: "This Was the Answer" The Birmingham Movement, 1963: "I Don't Mind Being Bitten by a Dog" The March on Washington, 1963: "We Stood on a Height" SNCC and Mississippi, 1960--64: "A Tremor in the Middle of the Iceberg" Selma, 1965: "We Must Go to Montgomery and See the King" Black Power and the March Against Fear, 1966: "The Oppressed Against the Oppressor" The Eclipsing of Nonviolence, 1965--68: "It Is Not Over" Notes and Sources Chronology of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954--68 Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index