Famed Civil Rights Photographer Dies at 85

Famed photographer Bob Adelman, whose portfolio captured many moving moments during the civil rights movement, died Saturday in Miami. He was 85 years old. Suggested Reading Suge Knight Claims Tupac’s Mother Made This Shocking Move in His Final Moments Spoilers: Black TikTok Has Theories on Whether Taraji’s Daughter in ‘Straw’ The Unbelievable Reasons Jury Deliberations…

Famed photographer Bob Adelman, whose portfolio captured many moving moments during the civil rights movement, died Saturday in Miami. He was 85 years old.

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โ€œHe was an amazing man with a passion for civil rights, a sweetheart of a guy,โ€ Adelmanโ€™s attorney told the Miami Herald.

Adelmanโ€™s most iconic work happened during the 1960s, documenting civil unrest in the South and intimate portraits of Martin Luther King Jr.โ€™s โ€œI Have a Dreamโ€ speech. Adelman was also there for the brutal 50-mile march King led from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

โ€œIt was probably the greatest display of the peopleโ€™s right to protest that Iโ€™ve ever participated in,โ€ Adelman told the Florida paper last year.

The New York Daily News reports that Adelmanโ€™s online portfolio also featured a photo of Kingโ€™s body inside his casket after his assassination.

Many of Adelmanโ€™s photos are archived at the Library of Congress. Many moments from that time were published in his 2007 book, Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights.

Adelman, a graduate of Columbia University, launched his magazine career as aย protรฉgรฉย to John F. Kennedyโ€™s favorite photographer, Jacques Lowe. His work has appeared in publications such as Time, Life and the New York Times Magazine, according to his website.

He moved to Florida from his native New York in 1997, the Herald reports.

Read more at the Miami Herald and the New York Daily News.

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