Jack Thornell, Pulitzer-winning photographer of Civil Rights Movement, dies at 86
Summary
Jack Thornell, a photographer for the Associated Press, died at age 86 from kidney disease complications. He won a Pulitzer Prize for a 1966 photo of James Meredith being shot during a civil rights march, an image that highlighted the violent resistance to racial integration in the U.S. South.Key Facts
- Jack Thornell worked for the Associated Press from 1964 to 2004.
- He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for his photo of James Meredith wounded by a shotgun attack during the "March Against Fear" in Mississippi.
- Meredith was the first Black man to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962.
- Thornell’s photo shows Meredith looking at his attacker on a highway in Mississippi.
- The shooter, Aubrey James Norvell, was caught and served 18 months in prison.
- Thornell also photographed other key civil rights moments, including the aftermath of the killings of civil rights workers Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.
- He captured images of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Selma march and Memphis sanitation workers’ strike.
- Thornell died in a hospital near New Orleans, Louisiana.
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