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SNCC workers outside the funeral for girls killed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby, Birmingham
SNCC workers outside the funeral for girls killed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby, Birmingham

SNCC workers outside the funeral for girls killed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby, Birmingham

Portfolio TitleCivil Rights, 1962-1964
Artist Danny Lyon (American, born 1942)
Date1963; printed 2002-2008
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 x 13 1/4 inches (22.86 x 33.66 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 inches (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2011.12.21
SignedOn sheet verso, bottom edge, in pencil: "Danny Lyon"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right corner, red stamp and pencil: "Printer / Kelton / BLEAK BEAUTY / 62-64 / Picture Date / 02-08 / Print Date"
Edition/State/ProofA.P.
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DescriptionGroup of people standing outsdie; woman in front holds an American flag.
Copyright© Danny Lyon
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Dr. Martin Luther King just before speaking at the funeral for girls killed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Dr. Martin Luther King just before speaking at the funeral for girls killed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Danny Lyon
1963; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.20
recto image overall
Crowds along the funeral route for girls killed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Danny Lyon
1963; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.18
recto overall
Windows of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four fourteen-year-old girls were killed by a KKK bomb
Danny Lyon
1963; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.16
Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis and Jeremiah X across from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis and Jeremiah X across from Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Danny Lyon
1963; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.19
Alabama Highway Patrol at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Alabama Highway Patrol at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham
Danny Lyon
1963; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.17
recto image overall
Sit-in by SNCC staff and supporters at a Toddle House: Taylor Washington, Joyce Ladner, Judy Richardson, George Green, Charles Neblett; Atlanta
Danny Lyon
1963-1964; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.29
Teenage girls in a stockade outside of Leesburg, Georgia, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
Teenage girls in a stockade outside of Leesburg, Georgia, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
Danny Lyon
1962-1964; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.13
Doris Ulmann, April 24, 1933
Doris Ulmann, April 24, 1933
Carl Van Vechten
1933
2005.27.4428
recto sheet overall
Doris
Unknown
1949
2015.9.160
recto image overall
John Lewis at the Cairo demonstration. Basis for SNCC poster, "Come let us build a new world together"; Cairo, Illinois
Danny Lyon
1962; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.3
James Forman, SNCC executive secretary at a mass meeting, Danville, Virginia
James Forman, SNCC executive secretary at a mass meeting, Danville, Virginia
Danny Lyon
1962; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.11
recto overall
Singing group at the March on Washington. Basis for the SNCC poster titled "Now"
Danny Lyon
1962-1964; printed 2002-2008
2011.12.14