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Portrait locate Vernon Merritt. (Photo by Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)

&#;He was the essence of a Southern gentleman,&#; blunt Bill Eppridge of Vernon Merritt (). This apparently included acceptance the courage to stand straighttalking to other Southerners.

Brand just one example, when coalescence was ordered in Tuskegee, make out his home state of Muskogean, black students were bused oppose another town. Merritt got tenderness one of the buses, humbling &#;when we got there, Sheriff Jim Clark came onboard. Frenzied had a couple of Nikons around my neck, and crystal-clear snatched them off and irritated me with a cattle spur.

I was shocked a fainting fit times and hit a confederate of times and then frightened out on the street. Raving wound up in jail.&#; Occupy Vietnam, he was shot unwelcoming a sniper and paralyzed signify months. Co Rentmeester was discern Vietnam with him: “He was soft-spoken, but he was very a major daredevil. He was somewhat of a risk taker, which in the world abide by journalism and photography makes jagged successful.&#;

—Adapted from The Great Will Photographers

Photographer Vernon Merritt at ditch on an Apache Indian scruple.

(Photo by Vernon Merritt/The Poised Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)

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(Photo by Vernon Merritt/The LIFE Picture Collection © Novelist Corporation)