Civil Rights

Danny Lyon (b. 1942)
Drinking Fountains in the Dougherty
County Courthouse,
Albany, Georgia, ca. 1963

Tottle House. . .Occupied During a Sit-in
by Some of America's Most
Effective Organizers . . . .
Taylor Washington, Ivanhoe Donaldson,
Joyce Ladner, John Lewis, Judy Richardson,
George Green, and Chico Neblett,
Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1963

Danny Lyon was the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a national group of college students who joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions capturing telling moments like these. These photographs are part of a limited edition portfolio that Lyon produced to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the civil rights struggle.