Selected Movement Photographs of
Cecil J. Williams

Website: Moments of Grace
Email: will2429@bellsouth.net

All photographs © Cecil J. Williams

 
[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

From Freedom & Justice: Four Decades of the Civil Rights Struggle As Seen by a Black Photographer of the Deep South

All Photos from Orangeburg, SC

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

[© Cecil J. Williams] Denied the right to hold civil rights meetings in campus buildings, students meet under the "Freedom Tree," 1956.
[© Cecil J. Williams] South Carolina State and Claflin College student protest march, 1956.
[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Kress 5&10 store removes the stools to prevent students from integrating their lunch counter with a sit-in, 1960.

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Student pickets boycott Kress, 1960.

[© Cecil J. Williams]
[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

 

 

 

More than 1000 students march against segregation, 1960.

[© Cecil J. Williams]
[© Cecil J. Williams]

The marchers are tear gassed and attacked with fire hoses. Almost 400 are arrested and herded into a police stockade.

[© Cecil J. Williams]
[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Movement equipment used to monitor police brutality and suppression of civil rights.

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Marching for freedom, 1963.

[© Cecil J. Williams]

 

Mass Meeting, 1963

Prayer-Protest, 1963. [© Cecil J. Williams]

[© Cecil J. Williams]

Marching in Support of Striking Hospital Workers, 1968.

[© Cecil J. Williams]


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