Joffre Clark was an activist and artist. He was part of the 'SNCC' (Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee) who helped put the Civil Rights Movement in the forefront of national consciousness using artists as key contributors within a movement. 'The group of activist photographers who helped to create what we now have as social movement photography includes Danny Lyon, Bob Fletcher, Doris Derby, Julius Lester, Joffre Clark, Rufus Hinton, Norris McNamara, Mary Varela and others... Overall the images captured by these photographers moved beyond the ideological and market-driven frames of corporate photo-journalism during the 1960s...First, the images by these photographers helped to create a formidable, independent media structure that influenced the direction and course of the civil rights movement. Equally important, the images captured during that time period now provide cues and clues for contemporary audiences to better understand and incorporate the legacies and lessons of the of the 1960s freedom struggle, thus potentially bringing them closer to an understanding of Selma and the voting rights movement as a bridge and not a destination' excerpt from Selma: The Bridge and Beyond — Alma Jean Billingslea Brown Originally published in In the Shadow of Selma, 2018