article_snippet: (CNN)Selma, it seems, is everywhere.
article_snippet: The Ava DuVernay film of that name continues to draw audiences and plaudits, while this month marks the 50th anniversary of three pivotal civil rights marches from the Alabama city -- the first two stopped by brute force, the third a triumphant procession to the state capital of Montgomery led by Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Bunche, Maurice Davis and other activists.
article_snippet: John Loengard, who was a staff photographer at Life and later the founding picture editor for People magazine and for Life, the monthly, in the late '70s and '80s, calls Selma "a not particularly dramatic event, photographically.
article_snippet: In Charles' famous picture of a police dog attacking a black man in Birmingham in '63, for example, the figure in the photo is a perfect symbol of nonviolence.
article_snippet: You know, a black man in Birmingham is standing there, taking it, not fighting back, amid this incredible rush of hatred and violence and as another dog is charging right at Charles's -- at the viewer's -- face.
article_snippet: It's a terribly complex image, swirling with information, but in the middle of It is this unmistakable emblem of the movement -- an emblem of the power and bravery of civil disobedience.