To
whom it may concern
When I - here from Denmark - followed the Black Lives
Matter protests in 2020, I couldn't just sit idle. Many young protesters
focused mainly on the police killings of blacks and perhaps did not know much
about the underlying historical roots behind much of today's anger. Many books have been written about it by black authors, but to my knowledge none with pictures.
All movements quickly die out, so
therefore I hope this book can be a visual supplement.
Since I have 22.000 photos in my archives from 50 years of traveling in
the black community, I got the idea to make a visual book as an inspiration for the movement
- about the
"roots of the oppression" and systemic racism I personally have witnessed since I came to America
4 years after the triumph of the Civil Rights movement. It is my hope that the
book can be published so fast that it can be useful in Trumps and Bidens divided America with its ever growing
economic, social and racial inequality.
See the entire book here:
Read
the book online here
Leaf through it with a page index below. Press the Full Screen botton below for
best result.
Click on links below the interviews and lyrics to instantly see the live
videos the text is based on.
Download the
book as a pdf - or as a
Word file
Download the Word file with
the text only
Here you can better mark and make comments in the text
Search specific pages as
image files on the web
Here you can quickly find and send individual pages as low-resolution web images.
Shorter extracts:
Foreword to the book
Life stories of: Sharecropper Lefus
Whitley - My girlfriend Mary
- Virginia Pate -
Rockefeller
Linda, the small girl with the kerose lamp
- The gangster Alphonso
- My ex-wife Annie
Renee Yates, naked at the crucifix
Special chapters:
The oppression of prostitutes -
The oppression of women
- The oppression of LGBTQ+
-
White hate: Serial murderers
-
White hate: Ku
Klux Klan - Black
resistance
More on the book
and my background
Technic details of proposed coffee table book
which I have set up in InDesign based on my old
"American Pictures" layout with many newer and
larger photos
from my art exhibitions. Please help suggest different photos from
here or
here.
Background on myself
Many reading this know me from my previous books, exhibitions and my 7000
lectures in
America and
Europe,
others do not.
With love
Jacob Holdt
Gernersgade 63
1319 Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone +45-20-324412
jacob@holdt.us
Facebook.com/Jacob.Holdt
Instagram.com/jacobholdtofficial
www.american-pictures.com
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