Southern State by Leonard Freed, Black-and-White Civil Rights Photography African Americans 1960s Family What catches the viewer’s eye

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Southern State by Leonard Freed, Black-and-White Civil Rights Photography African Americans 1960s Family What catches the viewer’s eyeThe photograph captures and translates the American South of the 1960s. Southern State, 1964 by Leonard Freed, is an 11 x 14 gelatin silver photograph from the photographer's Black in White America series and appears in the book of the same name (p. 104). The photograph is stamped verso (back of photo) by the estate and signed by Brigitte Freed (widow). Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and as a "concerned photographer" his work