Danny Lyon1962Cairo, Illinois. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) field secretary, later SNCC Chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration.
[Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement]
Gelatin silver print11 x 14 ins / 16 x 20 ins
Etherton GalleryCairo, Illinois. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) field secretary, later SNCC Chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration. A year after Danny Lyon made this photograph of John Lewis in Cairo, SNCC printed 10,000 copies of it as a poster and sold them for a dollar each, mostly in the North.
This photograph was included in the exhibition "Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" (Etherton Gallery, February 4 - March 15, 2014)
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