Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Lyon, Danny; Julian Bond

ISBN 10: 0807843865 / ISBN 13: 9780807843864

Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1992

About this Item

SIGNED. First edition, first printing. In 1962, Danny Lyon became staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most committed and confrontational groups fighting for civil rights. This volume presents his images from that time. Photographs and text by Danny Lyon; foreword by Julian Bond. SIGNED BY LYON on the title page; no inscription. 192 pages; 235 duo-toned b&w illustrations; 9 x 12 inches. Condition: Fine paperback with a hint of wear at one tip. Ships the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping may be more than quoted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807843865
• ISBN 13: 9780807843864
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
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Synopsis

Photographs and text chronicle the activities of Black students in the civil rights movement

From Publishers Weekly

Lyon, a young Jewish New Yorker, joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1962 as a photographer. The 212 black-and-white photographs shown here, taken from 1962 to 1965, document that short-lived, influential civil rights organization before it was undone by assassinations, the rise of the antiwar movement and the SNCC's espousal of black militancy. Lyon's images of cafeteria sit-ins and street demonstrations, showing sanguine, missionary-like protestors and furious, tight-lipped cops, are stark portraits of tension. The power of Lyon's photos is undiminished by his occasionally awkward text. Lyon debunks the myth that the 1963 march on Washington and Martin Luther King's 1965 march to Montgomery were the pivotal events of the movement; rather, they were mostly for the benefit of the media. Far more important, he writes, were the small-town skirmishes arising from the local Southern movement. Lyon ( The Bike riders ) also carefully describes the racial tensions within SNCC that were partially responsible for his leaving. The book is an honest, rich statement, transmitting the tumult, cross-purposes and devotion of the era.
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