Movement Photographs of
Matt Herron

Matt Herron's Photography Website

All photographs © Matt Herron

 

Rally for the Freedom Vote, Hinds County, Mississippi, 1963. Front row from left: NAACP leader Aaron Henry, SNCC organizers Sam Block and Willie Peacock.

SNCC workers being briefed before entering dangerous Belzoni MS in the Fall of 1963 to organize the Freedom Ballot.

Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Fannie Lou Hamer picketing for voting rights at the Forrest County courthouse, 1964.

Jackson, Mississippi, 1964.

Freedom school teacher Edie Black and class, Mississippi, 1964

Freedom school typing class, Mississippi, 1964

The Selma to Montgomery March Alabama, 1965.

Lowndes Country, Alabama The Selma to Montgomery March

Canton Mississippi, 1966. The Meredith March Against Fear is attacked and tear-gassed by state troopers.

Guarding the Freedom House at night.

Atlantic City boardwalk, August 1964. Vigil in support of the MFDP challenge to the Democratic Convention.

SNCC workers meeting before entering dangerous Belzoni MS.

Freedom march from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge.

Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, SCLC.

Ella Baker, SNCC

Victoria Jackson Gray, SNCC & MFDP.

Curtis (Hayes) Muhammad, SNCC

James Farmer, CORE.

Casey Hayden, SNCC.

Hollis Watkins & Arvenna Adams, SNCC.

Ed King & Joan Trumpauer.

Joyce Lader, SNCC.

Betty Poole, SNCC.

Mendy Samstein, SNCC.

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, SCLC.

Mrs. Annie Devine, COFO

March on Washington, August 28, 1963

16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham AL after the bombing.

Jackson, MS

Freedom School teacher Edie Black with her students at a Freedom School in Mileston, a community of black farmers in the Mississippi delta, August 1964.

Freedom Summer volunteer clasps hands with a Freedom School student in Valley View, MS.

Martin Luther King (center) on the March to Montgomery, John Lewis at right.

Bobby Simmons on the March to Montgomery.

Matt Herron evading deputy sheriff, date & location unknown.

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