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Danny Lyon 
Cairo, Illinois. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) field secretary, later SNCC Chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration. 
[Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement] 
1962 
  
Gelatin silver print 
11 x 14 ins / 16 x 20 ins 
  
Etherton Gallery 
 
LL/60830 
  
Cairo, Illinois. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) field secretary, later SNCC Chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration. A year after Danny Lyon made this photograph of John Lewis in Cairo, SNCC printed 10,000 copies of it as a poster and sold them for a dollar each, mostly in the North.
 
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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