Movement Photographs of
Danny Lyon

Danny Lyon's Website is bleakbeauty.com.

All photographs © Danny Lyon from Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery.

 

Albana, Georgia, August, 1962 Segregated drinking fountains in the county courthouse in Albany Georgia.

On a hot August night, a mass meeting packs the Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia.

Charles Sherrod, the leader of SNCC's effort in southwest Georgia.

A meeting in Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

A northern student in Mount Zion Baptist.

The Leesburg, Georgia, Stockade

Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, Georgia, teenage girls are kept in a stockage in the countryside near Leesburg. They have no beds and no working sanitary facilities. I made pictures through the broken glass of the barred windows.

Atlanta, Winter 1963 — 1964 One of high school student Taylor Washington's numerous arrests is immortalized as he yells while passing before me. The photograph became the cover of SNCC's photo book, The Movement, and was reproduced in the former Soviet Union in Pravda, captioned "Police Brutality USA."

A Toddle House in Atlanta has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of the most effective organizers in America when the SNCC staff and supporters take a break from a conference to demonstrate.

James Forman leads singing in the SNCC office on Raymond Street in Atlanta. (From left) Mike Sayer, McArthur Cotton, Forman, Marion Barry, Lester MacKinney, Mike Thelwell, Lawrence Guyot, Judy Richardson, John Lewis, Jean Wheeler, and Julian Bond.

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"Murderers," the new 30 min DVD by Danny Lyon is now available from bleakbeauty.com. Made exclusively with murderers and friends in three states; New York, Arkansas, and New Mexico, this is a dark and profound work on one of the oldest of mankind's activities, murder. Moving and beautiful with the use of great music, the film is deeply disturbing.

You may view a scene at this site.

Five Days Danny Lyon's new 60 minute DVD of the massive protests of August 2004, in NYC against the Republican National Convention is available from bleakbeauty.com.

On the last days of August, 2004 and the first days of September, New York City experienced the largest non-violent demonstrations directed against a political convention in American history. NYPD listed 120 separate protests. 1821 people were arrested. On a single day, half a million persons marched up Eighth Avenue towards the Republican National Convention in Madison Square Garden. Almost none of these protests reached the American people or the world via television.

These DVDs can be purchased on line for $20 with Pay Pal or by check to:
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