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Don Hogan Charles, lauded civil rights era photographer, dies at 79

Don Hogan Charles, the first black photographer hired by the New York Times and who captured the iconic 1964 photo in Ebony Magazine of Malcolm X holding a gun in his Queen’s home has passed away.

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Don Hogan Charles, the first black photographer hired by the New York Times and who captured the iconic 1964 photo in Ebony Magazine of Malcolm X holding a gun in his Queen’s home,  has passed away.

He was 79.

About photographer Don Hogan Charles

Born in 1938, Charles went on to become one of the Civil Rights Era’s most lauded photographers, documenting the humanity and everyday lives of Black people in America.

Swarns linked to an 2016 article on Charles from the Times that chronicled Charles’ noteworthy career:

But in the hundreds of other photographs that he shot, visible in the negatives of our archives, a fuller portrait of the neighborhood and Mr. Charles’s neighbors comes into view. The residents of his Harlem are fully rounded people, not caricatures, symbols or subjects to be studied. He had less than two days to shoot this assignment, but his subjects share a dignity that was often missing from much reporting of the era.

Here are some of his iconic photos:


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Unheard Voices is an award-winning news online magazine that started in 2004 as a newsletter in the Asbury Park, Neptune, and Long Branch, NJ areas to broadening into a recognized Black owned media outlet. The company is one of the few outlets dedicated to covering social justice issues. They are the recipient of the NAACP Unsung Hero Award and CV Magazine's Innovator Award for Best Social Justice Communications Company.

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