Jim Peppler, photographer for The Southern Courier, in the yard of the Bracy family in Elmore County, Alabama.
The cover photograph for At Canaan’s Edge was taken in 1968 by Jim Peppler, who was then a young photographer for a pioneering, student-led newspaper about the civil rights movement called the Southern Courier. In 2004, I found Peppler in New York and seached with him through many old prints stored in his house. Several of them appear in the book. He said he had always wanted to make sure his pictures were preserved somehow, and perhaps exhibited, which I thought was a terrific idea. On February 9 of this year, Jim sent happy notice that his entire catalogue has been archived by the Alabama Department of History. You can browse this wonderful collection at http://216.226.178.196/cdm4/peppler.php
