Out-of-the-Box in Dixie: Cecil Williams' Photography of the South Carolina Events that Changed America (Distributed for Cecil Williams Photography)

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Special Edition: Out-of-the-Box in Dixie: Cecil Williams Photography of the South Carolina Events that Changed America constitutes the most comprehensive and inclusive chronicle of the America s civil rights history to date, culminating with a stunning 4-color look at recent South Carolina events including efforts to remove the Confederate flag from atop the state capitol. In exclusive and large format photography, Orangeburg native Cecil Williams chronicles the lives and accomplishments of the heroic people of this state who began and led the struggle for desegregation in America. This is the story of people who changed the course of United States history and caused the national office of the NAACP to redirect its approach from suing separate but equal facilities to challenging segregation as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, stated Williams. The Orangeburg Freedom Movement the second wave was the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which many historians claim was the beginning of America s Civil Rights Movement. Until recently, few people have heard of Briggs v. Elliott or the Orangeburg Freedom Movement. Spanning more than a half century of racial change from Briggs vs. Elliott in 1949 to Rally for Removal of the Confederate Flag, in 2000, Williams explores the Civil Rights Movement from the inside perspective of an activist and photojournalist. Out-of-the-Box is more than a sequel to Freedom and Justice, Williams first civil rights documentary published in 1995 by Mercer University. It is a huge book, eleven by eleven inches, containing 320 pages and of the 486 photographs, more than 100 have never before published. All photographs are printed in duotone and 32 pages are in 4-color. It is wrapped in a beautiful dustjacket, laminated four-color hardcover, weighs nearly four pounds and reasonably priced at $60. For history, culture, and heritage, Out-of-the-Box in Dixie adds a new dimension to our understanding of the real origin of the Civil Rights Movement.