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Pamela Echols grapples with a police officer during housing desegregation protests, Illinois, USA, 1967 (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Many of these pictures were taken in black-and-white, as B&W film was cheaper and thus, commonly used by reporters taking many shots, most of which would've been printed in B&W anyway.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I grew up reading the newspaper which was always mostly black and white, but because of the absolutely historic nature of the events unfolding, I can't help but believe that a journalist would document it in color. Even if they just wanted to try to win a Pulitzer for it.