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Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

SNCC workers stand outside the funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby, Birmingham

1963, printed later
(American, b. 1942)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2023.85
Location: not on view
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On September 15, 1963, a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killed four young girls and injured others.

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Danny Lyon, who became of the official photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1963, documented many of the major historical events of the Civil Rights movement. In this moving view of those paying tribute to the four girls who died in the Birmingham church bombing, he conveys the solemnity and sadness of the occasion and the dignity of the mourners.
SNCC workers stand outside the funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby, Birmingham

SNCC workers stand outside the funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby, Birmingham

1963, printed later

Danny Lyon

(American, b. 1942)
America

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