Past Exhibition

Danny Lyon: Memories of Southern Civil Rights

January 31, 2019 - March 17, 2019
Black men sit and stand on courthouse steps as police approach; one man holds a sign reading “REGISTER TO VOTE,” another holds a protest sign. The scene captures a tense moment during a civil rights-era voting rights demonstration.

Based on Danny Lyon’s memoir, this exhibit brings together the photographs he took from 1962 to 1964 while traveling through the United States documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Lyon began his photographic career as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a national group of college students who joined together in 1960 after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. Organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.