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Photographer Ted Polumbaum chronicled ordinary people and civil rights
Judy Polumbaum talks about her father Ted Polumbaum a Time and Life photographer who captured activists workers and everyday scenes. His early career was halted by HUAC with Fifth Amendment refusal and blacklisting leading to a shift to freelance work including antiwar and Civil Rights images and a famed Freedom Summer photograph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Time
LIFE
Ted Polumbaum
Martin Luther King Jr
Jackie Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Julia Child
Muhammad Ali
Polumbaum
Judy Polumbaum
University of Iowa
Las Vegas
Prairie Lights
Prairielights
United Press
Harry Belafonte
Manhattan
King
Dr. King
South
Ted
Mississippi
Ku Klux Klan
Nyna Polumbaum
Miki
Judy