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 movement firsthand.
Genres
- Race relations
- Civil rights
- History
- Civil rights movements
- Biography
- African Americans
- Pictorial works
- Civil rights workers
- African americans, civil rights
- Civil rights movements, united states
- Southern states, race relations
- African americans, southern states
- Documentary photography
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
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