Danny Lyon USA. Atlanta, Georgia. Winter 1963-1964. A meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Executive Secretary James Forman leads singing in the SNCC office. (From Left) Mike Saye (...)
r, McArthur Cotton, James Forman, Marion Barry, Lester MacKinney, Mike Thelwell, Lawrence Guyot, Judy Richardson, John Lewis, Jean Wheeler and Julian Bond. © Danny Lyon | Magnum Photos
Danny Lyon A meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Executive Secretary James Forman leads singing in the SNCC office. (From Left) Mike Sayer, McArthur Cotton, James Forman, Marion (...)
Barry, Lester MacKinney, Mike Thelwell, Lawrence Guyot, Judy Richardson, John Lewis, Jean Wheeler and Julian Bond. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Winter, 1963-64. © Danny Lyon | Magnum Photos
Danny Lyon Bernie Sanders and other CORE activists during a sit-in at the University of Chicago, the first to occur in the north as part of the Civil Rights Movement. The demonstration was organized in opposi (...)
tion to housing segregation at the university. Chicago, Il, USA. January, 1962. © Danny Lyon | Magnum Photos
Danny Lyon USA. Leesburg, Georgia. August, 1963. Young women are held in the Leesburg Stockade after being arrested for demonstrating in Americus, GA. They have no beds or sanitary facilities.
Left to right (...)
- Melinda Jones Williams (13), Laura Ruff Saunders (13), Mattie Crittenden Reese, Pearl Brown, Carol Barner Seay (12), Annie Ragin Laster (14), Willie Smith Davis (15), Shirley Green (age 14, later Dr. Shirley Green-Reese), and Billie Jo Thornton Allen (13). Sitting on the floor: Verna Hollis (15). © Danny Lyon | Magnum Photos
Danny Lyon USA. Huntsville, Texas. 1968. The Ramsey prison farm is set on 16,000 acres of Brazos River bottomland about 30 miles south of Houston and is populated by 1400 men. The prison is divided into a new (...)
er and older unit, Ramsey One and Ramsey Two. Young convict about to discharge a ten-year sentence. Apparatus to open cells. © Danny Lyon | Magnum Photos
Danny Lyon USA. Farmington, New Mexico. 1997. Robert and Marie on Saturday morning. Robert has been released after 18 years in prison. Incarcerated as a child, he had stabbed a "white man" while in custody an (...)
d was given another 12 years. Marie's comment was, "They shouldn't give an Indian so much time for stabbing a white man." © Danny Lyon | Magnum Photos