VIDEO: Jim Wallace discusses "Courage in the Moment" photos of the Civil Rights movement in Chapel Hill
Photographer Jim Wallace discussed the Civil Rights movement in Chapel Hill and his new book, “Courage in the Moment: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1961-1964,” in a free, public event on Feb. 13 in the Freedom Forum Conference Center in Carroll Hall on the UNC campus.
View Dean Susan King's discussion with Wallace.
"Courage in the Moment" features more than 100 photographs, most of them previously unpublished, that Wallace captured while he was a journalism student and a photographer for The Daily Tar Heel. The images document events including marches, sit-ins, a Ku Klux Klan rally in Orange County and the 1963 March on Washington. Paul Dickson provided the book’s text.
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and the Carolina Association of Black Journalists (CABJ) co-sponsored the event, which included a presentation from Wallace followed by a Q&A session and book signing.
Wallace, a journalism school alumnus and member of its board of advisers, graduated from UNC in 1964. He served as a public information officer for the U.S. Air Force and, following his military service, edited a quarterly magazine based in Miami. In 1973, he joined the Smithsonian Institution and served as its director/curator of Imaging and Photographic Services, supervising photographers in the National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History and the National Air and Space Museum. He retired in 2003. Wallace is a member of the National Press Photographers Association and the White House News Photographers Association.
“We are thrilled that the Hussman School of Journalism and Media wanted to partner with CABJ for this historically important event,” said Jasmine Nesi, CABJ co-president. “Wallace’s book is a testament to an important time in American history, the impact that it had in Chapel Hill, and it is truly a great depiction of photojournalism at its finest.”