Moore today is an energetic, compact man with silver hair and penetrating blue eyes. He moved back to Alabama last spring after spending 23 years in California and settled in Florence, a short drive from his old hometown of Tuscumbia. Divorced, he lives alone. King is being pushed against the police station counter, his arm twisted behind his back. Of firemen in Birmingham, Ala., turning their hoses on black citizens in an effort to break up voting rights demonstrations.
People huddle in doorways, cover their faces, sustain the rocket-impact of the water.
They are tired, resolute, exultant. In a time when Life magazine came out every week, these images brought the movement into American homes. The pictures pressed on the moral nerve of the nation. After enlisting at 17 for a stint with the Marines, he studied fashion photography in California, then returned to Tuscumbia to work for a studio portrait chain. Becoming restless with studio work, he applied for a job at the Montgomery Advertiser.