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Images
Cairo, Illinois, 1962.
Demonstration at a whites-only pool.
Cairo, Illinois, 1962.
Demonstration at a whites-only pool.
Georgia, 1962.
Charles Sherrod (at right), Field Secretary for SNCC, and Randy Battle visit a supporter in the countryside.
Atlanta, Georgia, 1963.
Ralph Allen taking an affidavit from Carolyn Daniels in Terrell County.
Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963.
Frank Smith, Robert Parris Moses, and Willie Peacock in the SNCC office, which was firebombed the next day.
Atlanta, Georgia, 1963.
SNCC staff sit-in at a Toddle House.
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth at the funeral of the girls killed in the KKK bombing of the Sixteenth St. Baptist Church.
Albany, Georgia. 1963. Segregated drinking fountains in the Dougherty County courthouse.
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Savannah, Georgia, 1963.
Demonstrators about to be arrested.
Atlanta, Georgia, 1963.
Demonstrators being taken away by the police.
Leesburg, Georgia, 1963.
Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenaged girls are kept in Leesburg Stockade without beds or sanitary facilities.
Leesburg, Georgia, 1963.
Mattie Crittenden (left) and Shirley Green (later Shirley Green-Reese, Ph.D.) in Leesburg Stockade, arrested for demonstrating in Americus.
Washington, D.C. 1963.
SNCC Chairman John Lewis speaks from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington.
Cambridge, Maryland, 1963.
SNCC photographer Clifford Vaughs arrested by the National Guard as police use tear gas on demonstrators.
Atlanta, Georgia, 1963.
James Forman leads singing in the SNCC office with (from left) Mike Sayer, MacArthur Cotton, Marion Barry, Lester McKinney, Mike Thelwell, Larence Guyot, Judy Richardson, John Lewis, Jean Wheeler, and Julian Bond.
Atlanta, Georgia, 1963.
The Atlanta Movement.
Mississippi, 1964. Poster announcing a CORE
(Congress of Racial Equality) meeting. Civil rights
workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew
Goodman were abducted and slain by the KKK.
© Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos
