In the wake of the failed indictment of both the police officer involved in the death of Ferguson's Michael Brown, and the police officer involved in the death of Staten Island's Eric Garner, the American national conversation has definitively and justifiably turned toward issues of race in America. And the <i>visual</i> conversation unfolding -- from the photographs coming out of Ferguson that land on various front pages, to the steady stream of pictures coming from inside the NYC protests viewable on virtually all social media platforms -- can, at moments, share an uncanny resemblance to the scenes captured during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Revisit the seminal documentary work of Magnum photographers like Bruce Davidson, Danny Lyon, Eve Arnold and others, and you'll see scenes from half a century ago that feel distant but relevant, foreign but familiar.

But above is a slideshow composed of two complete edits of projects by Magnum's Leonard Freed. First, the entirety of his published work from <a href="http://store.magnumphotos.com/collections/signed-books/products/black-in-white-america-1st-edition-leonard-freed-signed" target='_blank'>"Black in White America"</a>: A visual examination of African American life in 1960s, discrimination and its manifestations from New York to Washington D.C. to the Deep South. The second body of work is from a project titled <a href="http://store.magnumphotos.com/products/police-work-leonard-freed-signed" target='_blank'>"Police Work"</a>: A raw look at the complexities, the good and the bad, of the 1970s New York police force.