Memories of the Southern civil rights movement /

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 u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyon, Danny
Corporate Author: Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Other Authors: Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 (writer of foreword)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Series:Lyndhurst series on the South
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Table of Contents:
  • "We Happy Few," 1955-1961
  • Cairo, Illinois, 1962
  • Albany, Georgia, August 1962
  • Mississippi, September 1962
  • Nashville, November 1962: The Annual SNCC Conference
  • Mississippi, 1963
  • Winona, Mississippi, June 9, 1963
  • Danville, Virginia, June 10, 1963
  • Gadsden, Alabama, June 1963
  • Savannah, Georgia
  • The Leesburg, Georgia, Stockade
  • Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
  • Birmingham, Alabama, September 12, 1963
  • Selma, October 7, 1963
  • Mississippi, Fall 1963
  • Southwest Georgia, 1963
  • Atlanta, November 22, 1963
  • Altanta, Winter 1963-1964
  • Hattiesburg, Mississippi, January 22, 1964
  • Cambridge, Maryland, Spring 1964
  • Atlanta, June 10, 1964: Staff Meeting
  • Mississippi Summer, 1964
  • The Waveland Conference, November 1964
  • Selma, March 7, 1965
  • Peg Leg Bates, Kerhonkson, N.Y., December 1966
  • Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, April 1989: Epilogue