Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (The Lyndhurst Series on the South) [Hardcover]

Danny Lyon (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Lyndhurst Series on the South | Publication Date: October 1992

In the summer of 1962, 20-year-old Danny Lyon packed his cameras and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lyon's photos and text are more just a record of marches, jailings, and protests, they take us behind the scenes to chronicle the southern Civil Rights movementfirsthand. 235 duotone pho tos. (Univ. of North Carolina Press)

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Lyon, a young Jewish New Yorker, joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1962 as a photographer. The 212 black-and-white photographs shown here, taken from 1962 to 1965, document that short-lived, influential civil rights organization before it was undone by assassinations, the rise of the antiwar movement and the SNCC's espousal of black militancy. Lyon's images of cafeteria sit-ins and street demonstrations, showing sanguine, missionary-like protestors and furious, tight-lipped cops, are stark portraits of tension. The power of Lyon's photos is undiminished by his occasionally awkward text. Lyon debunks the myth that the 1963 march on Washington and Martin Luther King's 1965 march to Montgomery were the pivotal events of the movement; rather, they were mostly for the benefit of the media. Far more important, he writes, were the small-town skirmishes arising from the local Southern movement. Lyon ( The Bike riders ) also carefully describes the racial tensions within SNCC that were partially responsible for his leaving. The book is an honest, rich statement, transmitting the tumult, cross-purposes and devotion of the era.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807820547
• ISBN-13: 978-0807820544
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,279,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A 'you are there' feel key to any coverage of America's civil rights movement. Highly recommended!, July 16, 2010

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This review is from: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement is a top pick for a variety of collections, from arts to photography libraries alike, but is featured here for it added value to any American history or social issues college-level library. Danny Lyon is a 'historian with a camera' who offers a visual testimony to the Southern civil rights movement and its events: chapters also offer first-person memories of civil rights confrontations and events, capturing details in a 'you are there' feel key to any coverage of America's civil rights movement. Highly recommended!