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Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just before he spoke at the funeral of the four murdered girls.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just before he spoke at the funeral of the four murdered girls.

Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just before he spoke at the funeral of the four murdered girls.

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1963
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsImage Size: 13 1/4 x 9 inches
Mat Size: 16 x 20
Object Size: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by the Memorial Art Fund
Object number2001.010.16
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.14
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement A friend of the murdered teenage girls enters the church for their funeral.
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A friend of the murdered teenage girls enters the church for their funeral.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.35
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Danny Lyon
1963/printed later
Object number: 2014.141
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.13
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Danny Lyon
1963/printed later
Object number: 2014.140
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Dr. Martin Luther King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are escorted from the court house to the jail house.
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are escorted from the court house to the jail house.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.06
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement The window of the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four teenage girls are killed by a KKK bomb two weeks after the March on Washington.
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The window of the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four teenage girls are killed by a KKK bomb two weeks after the March on Washington.
Danny Lyon
1963, September 12
Object number: 2001.010.33
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC workers outside the funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
SNCC workers outside the funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.15
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Jeremiah X outside the ruins of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Jeremiah X outside the ruins of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Danny Lyon
1963, September
Object number: 2001.010.34
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 from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
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 from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1963, printed later
Object number: 2015.143
Leesburg, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside.
Leesburg, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.11
Selma, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement The entrance to the City Cafe.
Selma, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The entrance to the City Cafe.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.17