Charles Moore (photographer)

Senator Jacob Javits, said that Moore's pictures "helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[5] Charles Moore in 1961, now working for Life, heard of James Meredith's attempts to enroll at the segregated University of Mississippi, and went with a few other photographers to document the events.

When he arrived two days before Meredith would be escorted to the campus, however, "[a] pack of enraged white students shoved their way into Moore's hotel room, shouting and cursing.

Moore arrived in Birmingham on the 3rd when he heard reports of attacks on the demonstrators, and he immediately began documenting the events of the march.

These photos are shown in Life Magazine and "Birmingham stayed on the front pages of the Times and the Post for twelve days".

[5] One month later, when Alabama's Governor Wallace went to the University of Alabama campus to bar black students from registering, President Kennedy addressed Wallace's actions as well as the events in Birmingham, saying, "The events in Birmingham and elsewhere have so increased the cries for equality that no city or State or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore them".

[7] These photos even gained international attention with "[p]hotographs appear[ing] in newspapers throughout the world and the...story...told in many languages.

[9] When Moore was in California, "doing a sex education assignment for the Saturday Evening Post",[6] he heard news of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Moore died at age 79 of complications related to Alzheimer's disease on March 11, 2010, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.