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Freed, Leonard

American photojournalist, 1929-2006

A member of the Magnum Photography Collective best known for his images of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. He also shot documentary films for international television.

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Crowd at Pinar with fists raised. Blas Pinar, the leader of the neo-fascist group the "Fuerza Nueva," which was founded under the Franco regime, held his last mass rally in Madrid before 30,000 followers assembled in a bullring. He and other speakers attacked the Government as traitors, "the Communists as Assassins" and affirmed that as long as Franco's memory was kept alive by their party fervor and loyalty, that although "Franco is dead, his work lives on in us." Throughout the night they chanted slogan of "Government-listen. Spain will not surrender" and proclaimed Franco-Franco-Franco, while demonstrators gave the Roman sign of "thumbs down" whenever speakers mentioned anything to do with Communists. Madrid, Spain, June 10, 1977, 1977

Leonard Freed
Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006)

A portrait of the late founder of the Basque Nationalist Movement, Sabino Arena, being carried through the streets of Guernica. It was 40 years ago on the 26th of April 1937 that planes of Hitler's "Condor Legion" destroyed the sacred town of the Basques "Guernica" on the bay of Biscay near Bilbao. German Heinkels and Junker planes set the town ablaze with their incendiary bombs, but the following day Franco's propaganda machine spread the rumor that the town had been burnt by its inhabitants rather than deliver it to the enemy. For the first time the authorities have allowed a mass memorial reunion for the survivors of the bombing and machine gun firing squads. Its present 19,000 inhabitants have not forgotten their tragic history. School children of the Bilbao art school made a full scale reproduction of Picasso's "Guernica" mural and displayed it in front of the city hall. Guernica, Spain, 1977, 1977

Leonard Freed
Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006)