Jack Randolph Thornell is an American photographer. He won the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 for his photo of James Meredith

James Meredith

James H. Meredith is an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. Motivated by President...

, after the activist was wounded by a sniper during his March Against Fear

March Against Fear

On June 6, 1966, James Meredith started a solitary March Against Fear for 220 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, to protest against racism. Soon after starting his march he was shot by a sniper with birdshot, injuring him...

 in 1967 in Mississippi.

Life

He served in the Army Signal Corps. He worked as a photographer for the Jackson Daily News (1960-1964), and for decades for the Associated Press

Associated Press

The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

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He married Carolyn Wilson in 1964; they had children Candice and Jay Randolph.

External links

• http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/photogalleries/66-68/02.html"James Meredith", Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1968, photos, Seattle Times, 2008
• "Sketches of Winners of Pulitzer Prize Winners", The New York Times