| Summary: | Photographer Herbert Eugene Randall, Jr., was born on December 16, 1936, in Bronx, New York. Randall studied with photographer Harold Feinstein, and freelanced for the Associated Press, among other media organizations. After receiving a Jay Hay Whitney Fellowship, Randall spent the summer of 1964 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, covering the Civil Rights Movement. Randall returned to New York in 1965, and worked for the Bedford Stuyvesant Youth In Action, Inc. in Brooklyn, New York; the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and later for New York's Board of Education Multi-Media Project Coordinator of Photography. Randall worked as the National Media Center Foundation photographic consultant. In 1981, he moved to the Shinnecock Indian Reservation doing various jobs. In 1999, Randall donated his photography archives to the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Randall co-wrote Faces of Freedom Summer in 2001, the story of Randall's photographs from Mississippi Freedom Summer.
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