There is tragic irony in the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death on March 19 of American Jewish Civil Rights photographer Bob Adelman. An ongoing police investigation will attempt to explain how Adelson, 85, was found dead with a head injury in his Miami Beach home. During arduous years as the national photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Adelman was the recording angel for protests in Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama and the 1963 March on Washington.

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