Described by Esquire as "the best photography book about the Civil Rights Movement. It unfolds like a great political drama," Bruce's Davidson's new book, Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965 (St. Ann's Press), captures the dignity and struggle of African-Americans during a defining era in American history.

Among the powerful, disturbing, and tender images, included are Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington; steel workers in Chicago; a Klu Klux Klan cross burning; migrant farm camps and cotton pickers in the south; protest marches and demonstrations; a Malcolm...