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Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Rights Movement
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Danny Lyon, 1981, Book cover for Danny Lyon, 1981, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, (Aperture), Book cover, Etherton Gallery, LL/60848
Danny Lyon, 1963, Danville, Virginia,. James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60797
Danny Lyon, 1962, Nashville, Tennessee. Left: Joy Reagon, Jessie Harris, Center: Peggy Dammond, Sam Block Right: Dorie Ladner, [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60798
Danny Lyon, 1963, Atlanta, Georgia. Ruby Doris Smith, James Forman, Marion Barry, and Sam Shirah at the SNCC Washington conference shortly after Kennedy's death., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60799
Danny Lyon, 1962, Albany, Georgia. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are escorted from the courthouse back to jail in Albany., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60800
Danny Lyon, 1963-1964, Atlanta, Georgia. Ella Baker, who called the 1960 meeting of student activists in Raleigh, North Carolina, that created SNCC., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60801
Danny Lyon, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. The morning after the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, heavily armed members of the Alabama Highway Patrol make a show of force near the church., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60802
Danny Lyon, 1963, 28 August, The March on Washington., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60803
Danny Lyon, 1962, Albany, Georgia. Ralph Allen taking an affidavit from Carolyn Daniels In Terrill County., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60804
Danny Lyon, 1963, Danville, Virginia. Dottie Miller, who lost her shoes to high-pressure fire hoses after being clubbed, gives an affidavit to James Forman, the SNCC Executive Secretary., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60805
Danny Lyon, 1963, Selma, Alabama. James Baldwin addresses a packed mass meeting on Freedom Day., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60806
Danny Lyon, 1962, Summer, Albany, Georgia. Danny Lyon in front of the movement office in Albany. Georgia in the summer of 1962., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60807
Danny Lyon, 1964, Fall, Nashville, Tennessee. John Lewis in Nashville., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60808
Danny Lyon, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Jeremiah X stand across the street from the bombed church., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60809
Danny Lyon, 1963-1964, Atlanta, Winter. A Toddle House in Atlanta has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of the most effective organizers in America when the SNCC staff and supporters take a break from a conference to demonstrate., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60810
Danny Lyon, 1963, Selma, Alabama. Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed placards on the steps of the federal building in Selma., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60811
Danny Lyon, 1963, Selma, Alabama. Sherriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed placards on the steps of the federal building in Selma., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60812
Danny Lyon, 1963, 28 August, The March on Washington. As the march ends, SNCC members and friends defiantly gather to sing freedom songs., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60813
Danny Lyon, 1964, Cambridge, Maryland. Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60814
Danny Lyon, 1963-1964, Winter, Atlanta. One of the high school student Taylor Washington's numerous arrests is immortalized as he yells while passing before me (Danny Lyon)., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60815
Danny Lyon, 1962, Cairo, Illinois. The public swimming pool has been changed into a "private pool" in order to remain segregated., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60816
Danny Lyon, 1963, Danville, Virginia. A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60817
Danny Lyon, 1962, Nashville, Tennessee. Demonstration at a Tic Toc restaurant: Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60818
Danny Lyon, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Crowds wait along the funeral route (for the four girls killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church)., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60819
Danny Lyon, 1962, Oxford, Mississippi. Waiting for James Meredith, the first African American to register at the University of Mississippi. This image also became a popular SNCC poster, with the slogan "Is he protecting you?", [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60820
Danny Lyon, 1963, Savannah, Georgia. In Savannah, hundreds of young people were going to jail in a movement led by Hosea Williams of the SCLC. Here, police arrest whites who are harassing demonstrators., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60821
Danny Lyon, 1964, 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], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60822
Danny Lyon, 1964, 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], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60823
Danny Lyon, 1963, The Leesburg, Georgia Stockade. Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside near Leesburg., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60824
Danny Lyon, 1963, Mississippi. After giving a concert in a cotton field in Greenwood, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60825
Danny Lyon, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. just before he speaks at Birmingham., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60826
Danny Lyon, 1962, Albany, Georgia. Segregated drinking fountains in the county courthouse in Albany, Georgia., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60827
Danny Lyon, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. The SNCC workers outside the funeral of the girls murdered in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60828
Danny Lyon, 1963, Selma, Alabama. The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60829
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, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. The windows of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four fourteen-year-old girls were killed by a KKK bomb., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60831
Danny Lyon, 1963, Mississippi. The road to Yazoo City., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60832
Danny Lyon, 1963, Danville, Virginia. The mass meeting In Danville is so crowded that it overflows out into the yard. When word arrives that heavily armed police and an armored vehicle are waiting up the road, the crowd disperses, leaving the SNCC workers to exit last., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60833
Danny Lyon, 1963, Mississippi. A House in the Mississippi Delta., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60834
Danny Lyon, 1963, Danville, Virginia. Bob Zellner, Bernice Reagon, Cordell Reagon, Dottie Miller (Zellner), and Avon Rollins., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60835
Danny Lyon, 1962, Cairo, Illinois. Demonstrations at an "all white" swimming pool in Cairo, Illinois., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60836
Danny Lyon, 1963-1964, Atlanta, Winter. As demonstrators block traffic to protest segregation and unfair hiring practices in downtown Atlanta, a mob begins to abuse them with kicks, blows and burning cigarettes., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60837
Danny Lyon, 1963, Selma, Alabama. Entrance to the City Cafe., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60838
Danny Lyon, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60839
Danny Lyon, 1962, Albany, Georgia. The first sit-in arrests Lyon sees and photographs are those of Eddie Brown, a former Albany gang leader… who volunteered to be arrested for the photographs., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60840
Danny Lyon, 1962, September, Jackson, Mississippi. A year after the Freedom Rides, segregation signs still stand outside the Jackson, Mississippi bus terminal., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60841
Danny Lyon, 1962, Albany, Georgia. A street in Albany., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60842
Danny Lyon, 1963, Georgia. Charles Sherrod (standing at right) and Randy Battle (seated) visit a supporter In the Georgia countryside. Sherrod married there and thirty years later is still in southwest Georgia, a member of the Albany City Council., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60843
Danny Lyon, 1964, Cambridge, Maryland. Stokely Carmichael and the Maryland National Guard., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60844
Danny Lyon, 1963, Savannah, Georgia. Arrests in Savannah., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60845
Danny Lyon, 1963-1964, Winter, Atlanta, Winter. Arrests during mass demonstrations downtown., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60846
Danny Lyon, 1963, Mississippi. The Clarksdale, Mississippi police pose for a photograph as ministers from the National Council of Churches march to the local church., [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement], Gelatin silver print, Etherton Gallery, LL/60847
   
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