The #JohnLewis mugshots @eveewing shared reminded me that one of my favorite genres of America photography is civil rights activists looking at the cops taking their mugshots with complete swag. Here is Lewis alongside C.T. Vivian, who we also lost yesterday.
More coming Twitter broke my thread...
Their confidence no doubt enraged the men who arrested and imprisoned them. That was part of the strategy. And they looked at the camera like this not because they weren’t afraid and brutalized, but because they knew they were right and believed they could win. #GoodTrouble