Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Lyndhurst Series on the South)

Lyon, Danny

ISBN 10: 0807843865 / ISBN 13: 9780807843864

Published by Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1992

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RARE. VG. Signed by author to Half Title Page, along with numerous gift inscriptions, one signed by folk singer/activist Pete Seeger and all inscribed to "Jeanne", which may presumably be Jeanne Humphries, bass player, and dated Jan. 2001. Wraps with light general wear. Small Incidental soil spot to front wrap fore-edge that has bled to underside. Corners rubbed. Tiny dogear and paper lift to upper corner of rear wrap. Faint liquid markings to top margins of interior front wrap and Half Title Page. Faint foxing to margins of Half Title Page and last page verso. Images can be provided for your satisfaction.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Lyndhurst Series on the South)
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807843865
• ISBN 13: 9780807843864
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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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