AP photographer Jack Thornell’s iconic images of civil rights and beyond

AP photographer Jack Thornell’s iconic images of civil rights and beyond

Independent April 25, 2026

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell ‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Civil Rights Movement.

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