
Memories of the Southern civil rights movement
by Danny Lyon
Race relationsCivil rightsHistoryCivil rights movementsBiographyAfrican AmericansPictorial worksCivil rights workers
In the summer of 1962, 20-year-old Danny Lyon packed his cameras and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lyon's photos and text are more just a record of marches, jailings, and protests, they take us behind the scenes to chronicle the southern Civil Rights movement firsthand.
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