From Frederick Douglass to 2020

The link between the camera and civil rights

Sarah Quinlan
Arc Digital
Published in
6 min readJun 16, 2020

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Frederick Douglass, circa 1879. (Corbis/Getty)

Frederick Douglass called photography a “democratic art.” In recent years, police interactions, particularly those with black Americans, have received significant attention — and video camera footage of those interactions has been given significant credit for forcing many Americans to reconsider black Americans’ experiences and the…

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Sarah Quinlan
Arc Digital

Conservative • Feminist • “Because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart”