Danny Lyon, 1962, 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], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60830
Danny Lyon 1962 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]
Etherton Gallery 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)
