A half century ago, a social change movement produced searing media imagery displaying the viciousness of unrestrained White supremacy with brutalized bodies and violent clashes. Examining the voluminous media imagery of Charlottesville’s Summer of Hate, I couldn’t help but notice how the most heavily circulated photos graphically and thematically echoed famous images of mid-century civil rights-era struggles.
Author Archives: Aniko Bodroghkozy
Aniko Bodroghkozy is a media studies professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement” and the forthcoming book “Making #Charlottesville: Media From Civil Rights to Unite the Right.”