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Mark Stansbury, 2007

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Stansbury, Mark
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Oral history, Interviews, Civil rights, Memphis (Tenn.), Crossroads to Freedom, Memphis World, Race relations, King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
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20070926_Mark_Stansbury
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Crossroads to Freedom Oral History Collection
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http://hdl.handle.net/10267/33509
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This is a lecture by Mark Stansbury, a photographer who was active in documenting the Civil Rights Movement. During his career as a photographer he worked with the two major black newspapers in Memphis, the Memphis World and the Tristate Defender. In the interview he describes a number of photographs that he took during his career and also recalls vivid memories of the time surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.