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The powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black
photojournalist from Orangeburg, South Carolina Cecil Williams is
one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights
movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams
worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights
activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to
White violence perpetrated by law officials and ordinary citizens.
Williams's story is the story of the civil rights era. Williams and
award-winning journalist Claudia Smith Brinson combine forces in
Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams.
Together they document civil rights activism in the 1940s through
the 1960s in South Carolina. Williams was there, in South Carolina,
to witness and document pivotal movements such as then-NAACP legal
counsel Thurgood Marshall's arrival in Charleston to argue the
landmark case Briggs v. Elliott and the aftermath of the infamous
Orangeburg Massacre. Featuring eighty stunning photographs
accompanied by Brinson's rich research, interviews, and prose,
Injustice in Focus offers a firsthand account of South Carolina's
fight for civil rights and describes Williams's life behind the
camera as a documentarian of the civil rights movement.
Fiction. The four chapbooks collected in A PECULIAR FEELING OF
RESTLESSNESS, three of them finalists and one of them the winner of
the Rose Metal Press first annual short short chapbook contest, all
revel in the succinctness of their form, the underlying tension
anchored beneath each story of 1,000 words or less. These stories
are peculiar; they resonate with restlessness. They are deft, they
are gritty, and they are lyrical. Laughter, Applause. Laughter,
Music, Applause by Kathy Fish, Wanting by Amy L. Clark, Sixteen
Miles Outside of Phoenix by Elizabeth Ellen, and The Sky Is a Well
by Claudia Smith combine four multi-layered portrayals of beautiful
uneasiness into a collection rich with wit, grace, and originality.
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