The great black photographer you've never heard of

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Moneta Sleet: The great black photographer you've never heard of

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It almost didn't happen. Initially, no black photojournalists were selected to cover the funeral, but when word of this reached Coretta Scott King she insisted that the black media be represented. If Moneta Sleet was not allowed into the church, she is reported to have said, there would be no photographers at all.

Sleet had come to know the Kings while covering the civil rights movement for Ebony, the leading magazine for the African-American market. In his first year there he covered the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, and was on the ground for the 1963 march on Washington and the events in Selma, Alabama, in 1965.He was in good shape physically, and tall, about 6ft 2in, with a long stride.

 

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.... Unlike all those white photojournalists that are household names 😂

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