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America has long struggled with issues of equality and race. A Past That Won't Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi is an important reminder of how far we've come as a country and how far we still have to go. Jim Lucas masterfully captured the humanity of the civil rights movement in Mississippi during the 1960s. The people featured in his work are the face of pain and suffering, but also of resiliency and hope. Like Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, Jim Lucas left us way too early but his life's work will continue to be a crucial piece of our history. A powerful testimony to the time, everyone who cares about justice should read A Past That Won't Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. --David Goodman, brother of Andrew Goodman and president of The Andrew Goodman Foundation A Past That Won't Rest is a collection of wonderful photographs and commentary. Together they add enormously to a history of the struggle for civil rights, a past that still informs the present, and a fight for equal treatment not yet accomplished. These photographs demonstrate that the effort was, and must remain, a people's movement. --Rita Schwerner Bender, civil rights activist and lawyer Jim Lucas had extraordinary, unusual access on the ground in Mississippi. For those of us who were there, the moments he captured are a powerful, sometimes painful, priceless gift. I am so grateful this book will give a new generation of readers a sense of the immediacy and urgency as history was being made. --Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children's Defense Fund

America has long struggled with issues of equality and race. A Past That Won't Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi is an important reminder of how far we've come as a country and how far we still have to go. Jim Lucas masterfully captured the humanity of the civil rights movement in Mississippi during the 1960s. The people featured in his work are the face of pain and suffering, but also of resiliency and hope. Like Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, Jim Lucas left us way too early but his life's work will continue to be a crucial piece of our history. A powerful testimony to the time, everyone who cares about justice should read A Past That Won't Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. --David Goodman, brother of Andrew Goodman and president of The Andrew Goodman Foundation A Past That Won't Rest is a collection of wonderful photographs and commentary. Together they add enormously to a history of the struggle for civil rights, a past that still informs the present, and a fight for equal treatment not yet accomplished. These photographs demonstrate that the effort was, and must remain, a people's movement. --Rita Schwerner Bender, civil rights activist and lawyer Jim Lucas had extraordinary, unusual access on the ground in Mississippi. For those of us who were there, the moments he captured are a powerful, sometimes painful, priceless gift. I am so grateful this book will give a new generation of readers a sense of the immediacy and urgency as history was being made. --Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children's Defense Fund

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Jim Lucas (1944-1980) started photographing for the Jackson Daily News while he was still in high school. A student at Millsaps College when the nation was focused on Mississippi and the search for three missing civil rights workers, Lucas met and assisted film cameramen from CBS news that summer of 1964. He continued to cover local marches, pickets, planning meetings, and bombings until 1968. Serving in Vietnam in the Army Signal Corps, he was named Military Newsfilm Motion Picture Photographer of the Year in 1969. Returning to Mississippi, he pursued freelance film work and work in motion picture feature films. Jane Hearn, Beaufort, South Carolina, was married to Jim Lucas at the time of his death. She archived, edited, and restored these images for a touring exhibition and a website.

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