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Charles Moore put faces on the Civil Rights movement for a nation to see. His photographs for Life magazine reached half of the nation. Images of snarling police dogs, water cannons, the Ku Klux Klan and Bloody Sunday helped spur the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Moore died March 11 at the age of 79 of kidney disease and other ailments.

 

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