Southern Rites: A Visual Journal of the Race and Equality Struggle
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In May 2009, the New York Times Magazine published a photo-essay by Gillian Laub titled "A Prom Divided," which documented Georgia's Montgomery County High School's racially segregated prom rituals. Laub's photographs ignited a firestorm of national outrage and led the community to finally integrate.The book, "Southern Rites," is an original and provocative 12-year visual study of one community's struggle to confront longstanding issues of race and equality. "Southern Rites" is available at Artbook.
