575,000 Images by Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Go to Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) has acquired the archive of Bob Adelman, a photographer who helped document the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and continued to be active in social justice issues in the decades that followed, until his death in 2016. The trove, gifted by an anonymous donor, comprises 575,000 images, negatives, and slides, including 50,000 prints.

Born in New York City in 1930 and growing up on Long Island, Adelman began his photography career after earning a master’s in philosophy from Columbia University and studying law at Harvard. He studied the form with Alexey Brodovitch, art director of Harper’s Bazaar, and then volunteered for the Congress of Racial Equality as a photographer.

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