Robert De Witt Fitch

Place: Los Angeles

Born: 1939

Death: 2016

Biography:

Bob Fitch was an American photographer during the civil rights movement. He served as an intern at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco and worked with various groups including street gangs, the homeless, hippies, and LGBT groups. Fitch was later a labor organizer and a draft resistance counselor. He worked at the California Department of Housing and Community Development and at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, in Sacramento and Santa Cruz. An archive of Fitch's photos is held at Stanford University Libraries, containing over 200,000 images spanning from 1965 to the present.