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Danny Lyon

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

In the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon packed a Nikon Reflex and an old Leica in an army bag and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Albany, Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner, Martin Luther King Jr. Lyon soon became the first staff photographer for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which already had a reputation as one of the most committed and confrontational groups fighting for civil rights.

"This young white New Yorker came South with a camera and a keen eye for history. And he used these simple, elegant gifts to capture the story of one of the most inspiring periods in America’s twentieth century." — John Lewis, US Congressman

twin palms publishers
april 2010
9 x 12 inches
196 duotone plates
201 pages

isbn: 978-1-931885-88-1

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