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Southwest Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC field secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle visit a supporter in the countryside. Sherrod is currently a member of the Albany City Council.
Southwest Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC field secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle visit a supporter in the countryside. Sherrod is currently a member of the Albany City Council.

Southwest Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
SNCC field secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle visit a supporter in the countryside. Sherrod is currently a member of the Albany City Council.

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1963
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsImage Size: 8 15/16 x 13 1/8 inches
Mat Size: 16 x 20
Object Size: 11 x 13 7/8 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by the Memorial Art Fund
Object number2001.010.21
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
Nashville, Tennessee, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Bernice Reagon and the Freedom Singers lead a mass meeting of SNCC workers and student supporters. SNCC Chairman Chuck McDew stands with SNCC Executive Secretary James Forman on the left. Many of the earliest members and supporters of the SNCC appear in this picture.
Nashville, Tennessee, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Bernice Reagon and the Freedom Singers lead a mass meeting of SNCC workers and student supporters. SNCC Chairman Chuck McDew stands with SNCC Executive Secretary James Forman on the left. Many of the earliest members and supporters of the SNCC appear in this picture.
Danny Lyon
1962, November
Object number: 2001.010.29
Cairo, Illinois from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC field secretary, later SNCC Chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration.
Cairo, Illinois from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
SNCC field secretary, later SNCC Chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.03
Photo: Tad Merrick, Vermont
Hattiesburg, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted for trying to register, beaten in the Winona jail, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidate for Congress. Miss Hamer is now recognized as one of the truly extraordinary women of American history.
Danny Lyon
1964
Object number: 2001.010.26
Hattiesburg, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain
Hattiesburg, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Fannie Lou Hamer, sharecropper from a family of twenty children, evicted from her home for applying to register to vote, severely beaten in the Winona police station, SNCC field secretary from Ruleville, and future Mississippi Freedom Democratic party candidate for Congress, marches in the cold Hattiesburg rain
Danny Lyon
1963/printed later
Object number: 2014.138
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
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Eddie Brown, former gang leader and movement activist is arrested.
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Eddie Brown, former gang leader and movement activist is arrested.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.05
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Drinking fountains in the Dougherty County courthouse.
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Drinking fountains in the Dougherty County courthouse.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.04
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
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.07
Ruleville, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Gwen Gillon, a SNCC staff member from Alabama, conducts a literacy class during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Ruleville, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Gwen Gillon, a SNCC staff member from Alabama, conducts a literacy class during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Danny Lyon
1964
Object number: 2001.010.28
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
Clarksdale, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement The local police force pose for a photograph as ministers from the National Council of Churches march to the local church.
Clarksdale, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The local police force pose for a photograph as ministers from the National Council of Churches march to the local church.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.20