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Willie Ricks was one of SNCC’s great stump speakers, capable of getting great emotional responses from a crowd. During the Meredith March in Mississippi, where King and Stokely Carmichael marched side by side, it was Ricks who first unleashed the “Black Power” cry.  Here he speaks in Atlanta
Willie Ricks was one of SNCC’s great stump speakers, capable of getting great emotional responses from a crowd. During the Meredith March in Mississippi, where King and Stokely Carmichael marched side by side, it was Ricks who first unleashed the “Black Power” cry.  Here he speaks in Atlanta

Willie Ricks was one of SNCC’s great stump speakers, capable of getting great emotional responses from a crowd. During the Meredith March in Mississippi, where King and Stokely Carmichael marched side by side, it was Ricks who first unleashed the “Black Power” cry.  Here he speaks in Atlanta

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1964/printed later
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
Dimensions14 x 10 15/16 inches, Image size: 12 15/16 x 8 3/4 inches
Credit LineGift of Jill M. Garling and Thomas J. Wilson
Object number2016.356
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
103. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.103
104. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
104. Saddle Mountain (3,257 feet) as seen from the side of Humbug Mountain (2,452 feet), Clatsop County, Oregon. Saddle Mountain is the highest point in the Coastal Range in northwestern Oregon. The sorrow one feels here today is not new. Sam Churchill (1911–1991), a well-known newspaperman who was raised in a logging camp near Saddle Mountain, remembered experiencing it as a young child walking with his mother: “I knew that already donkey engines of the Saddle Mountain Logging Company were gnawing at the vast belt of timber almost at the mountain’s foot. A great panic and sadness suddenly welled up within me. I clutched at on of Mother’s blackberry-picking hands. ‘I don’t want all the trees to be gone,’ I sobbed in boyish agony. There, in the sullen loneliness of a logged-off ridge top, and surrounded by blackberry vines and with Saddle
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.104
Stokely Carmichael and the Maryland National Guard from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Stokely Carmichael and the Maryland National Guard from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1964/printed later
Object number: 2014.139
The March on Washington, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC Chairman John Lewis speaks at the March on Washington
The March on Washington, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
SNCC Chairman John Lewis speaks at the March on Washington
Danny Lyon
1963, August 28
Object number: 2001.010.31
The March on Washington, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC staff and friends gather after the March to defiantly sing freedom songs, which were prohibited during the March. Julian Bond, Elanor Holmes, Bob Moses, Courtland Cox, James Forman, Annell Ponder, Willie Peacock, and Curtis Hays appear in this picture.
The March on Washington, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC staff and friends gather after the March to defiantly sing freedom songs, which were prohibited during the March. Julian Bond, Elanor Holmes, Bob Moses, Courtland Cox, James Forman, Annell Ponder, Willie Peacock, and Curtis Hays appear in this picture.
Danny Lyon
1963, August 28
Object number: 2001.010.32
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
Atlanta, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Arrests during mass demonstrations downtown.
Atlanta, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Arrests during mass demonstrations downtown.
Danny Lyon
1963-64, winter
Object number: 2001.010.22
Atlanta, Georgia: A Toddle House has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of America’s most effective organizers. In the room are Taylor Washington, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Joyce Ladner, John Lewis behind Judy Richardson, George Green, and Chico Neblett. from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Atlanta, Georgia: A Toddle House has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of America’s most effective organizers. In the room are Taylor Washington, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Joyce Ladner, John Lewis behind Judy Richardson, George Green, and Chico Neblett. from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1963-64, winter
Object number: 2001.010.25
Image Not Available for All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
Sol LeWitt
1975
Object number: 2010.002
All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
Sol LeWitt
1975
Object number: 2010.002.1
All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
Sol LeWitt
1975
Object number: 2010.002.2
All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
All Combination of Arcs from Four Corners and Four Sides, Straight, Not-Straight and Broken Lines (E-15)
Sol LeWitt
1975
Object number: 2010.002.3