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The University of Mississippi campus when James Meredith tried to register as the first black student there from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The University of Mississippi campus when James Meredith tried to register as the first black student there from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

The University of Mississippi campus when James Meredith tried to register as the first black student there from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1962/printed later
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
Dimensions11 x 14 inches
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Nicholas
Object number2017.289
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
Oxford, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Waiting for James Meredith, the first African American to register at the University of Mississippi.
Oxford, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Waiting for James Meredith, the first African American to register at the University of Mississippi.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.10
Greenwood, Mississippi, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Bob Dylan plays for SNCC workers Bernice Reagon and Mendy Samstein and James Blue outside the SNCC office.
Greenwood, Mississippi, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Bob Dylan plays for SNCC workers Bernice Reagon and Mendy Samstein and James Blue outside the SNCC office.
Danny Lyon
1963, Fall
Object number: 2001.010.36
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
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded. Eighty thousand people joined. Here people vote in Mississippi, most for the first time in their lives from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded. Eighty thousand people joined. Here people vote in Mississippi, most for the first time in their lives from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1964, printed later
Object number: 2015.147
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
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
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
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
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
Jackson, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement A year after the freedom rides, segregation signs still stand outside the bus terminal.
Jackson, Mississippi from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A year after the freedom rides, segregation signs still stand outside the bus terminal.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.08
A Home in the Mississippi Delta from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A Home in the Mississippi Delta from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.19