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Danny Lyon
Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote...
[Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement]
1964
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 ins / 16 x 20 ins
Etherton Gallery
LL/60822
Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain.
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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