Photographer Charles Moore dies at 79 in Florida; covered civil rights movement

Photographer Charles Moore dies at 79

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Charles Moore, a photographer who chronicled the civil rights movement, has died. He was 79.

John Edgley of Edgley Cremation Services in West Palm Beach, Fla., confirmed that Moore died Thursday.

The Times Daily of Florence, Ala., reported that Moore began covering the movement as the lone photographer at the scene when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Montgomery in 1958. In the years that followed, the Alabama native took some of the most enduring shots of the movement.

For much of his career, he worked for Life magazine.

In 1991, a collection of his photographs along with his biography was published: “Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore.”

A memorial service is planned later this year.