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Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A giant of post-War documentary photography and film, Brooklyn, NY native Danny Lyon helped define a mode of photojournalism in which the picture-maker is deeply and personally embedded in his subject matter. A self-taught photographer and a graduate of the University of Chicago, Lyon began his photographic career in the early 1960s as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a national group of college students who joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions documenting the Civil Rights Movement. The photographs were published in The Movement, a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and later in Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Lyon’s own memoir of his years working for the SNCC.

"Lyon was the Robert Capa of the Movement. Many of his pictures remain the stock images of the period.....In "Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement," there are not only the famous pictures but Lyon's text, including many important documents......Much of their outstanding achievement has been forgotten. Perhaps Danny Lyon's fine book can help to bring their accomplishment into the mainstream history of the 1960's."
 - Joseph Schwartz, London Times Literary Supplement,
March 1993

"Danny Lyon's self-described propaganda became journalism, then poster art and now history; the photographer himself -- like Matthew Brady, whom he admired -- has become a historian with a camera." 
 - Robin Reisig, The New York Times Book Review, Feb. 1993
Free Admission & Activities
January 13 - February 19, 2022

Movies and art workshops are canceled for February but the Artist Talks and the Straight Out Scribes are still on.

FEB. SCHEDULE HOURS ACTIVITY DETAILS
Thu, Feb. 3 3-8 pm Gallery Open
Fri, Feb. 4 3-8 pm Gallery Open
6 pm Moviie Night CANCELLED
Sat, Feb. 5 11 am-4 pm Gallery Open
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Art Workshop CANCELLED
Thu, Feb. 10 3-8 pm Gallery Open
6 pm Artist Talk Quilt Codes: Fact or Folklore
Fri, Feb. 11 3-8 pm Gallery Open
6 pm Movie Night CANCELLED
Sat, Feb. 12 11 am - 4 pm Gallery Open
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Art Workshop CANCELLED
Thu, Feb. 17 3-8 pm Gallery Open
6-7 pm Special Event Straight Out Scribes
Fri, Feb. 18 3-8 pm Gallery Open
6 pm Moviie Night CANELLED
Sat, Feb. 19 11 am - 4 pm Gallery Open
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Art Workshop CANCELLED
7 pm Rise Up Theatre "The Golden Age Radio Show"
Sun, Feb. 20 2 pm Rise Up Theatre "The Golden Age Radio Show"
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