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Danny Lyon
Ruleville, Mississippi. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded.
[Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement]
1964
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 ins / 16 x 20 ins
Etherton Gallery
LL/60823
Ruleville, Mississippi. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded. Eighty thousand people joined. Here people vote in Mississippi, most for the first time in their lives.
This photograph was included in the exhibition "Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" (Etherton Gallery, February 4 – March 15, 2014)
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