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Black-and-white photograph down an uphill urban street with neon lights. White police watch a group of black women and men cross the street.

Danville, Virginia, 1963

Danny Lyon

Black-and-white photograph of a dozen white men sitting on the sidewalk against a brick building as though watching something. Beyond them in the same line, a number of black people and a white person stand against the same wall, also watching, visible from the neck down.

Danville, Virginia, 1963

Danny Lyon

Black-and-white photograph of a police officer grabbing his crotch for the camera. Near him outdoors are other casually posed officers, some smoking. One leans against a white car parked in profile that takes up the right half of the image.

The Police at Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1963

Danny Lyon

Black-and-white photograph of three police in helmets standing in front of a wooden house. The one in the middle wears a wide-brimmed hat, his back to us as though writing. The other two flank him, wearing helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets.

Cambridge, Maryland, 1964

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Demonstrations at an “All-White” Swimming Pool in Cairo, Illinois, 1962, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Police at Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1963, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Atlanta, Police Car Window, 1963, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Road to Yazoo City, 1963, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Segregated Drinking Fountain in the County Courthouse in Albany, Georgia, 1962, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Willie Ricks was one of SNCC’s great stump speakers, capable of getting great emotional responses from a crowd. During the Meredith March in Mississippi, where King and Stokely Carmichael marched side by side, it was Ricks who first unleashed the “Black Power” cry. Here he speaks in Atlanta, 1964, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement, 1963, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Dr. Martin Luther King Just Before He Speaks at Birmingham, 1963, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Windows of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Where Four Fourteen-Year-Old Girls Were Killed by a KKK Bomb, 1963, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

John Lewis in Cairo, 1963, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Four Youngsters, from the series "Uptown, Chicago", 1965, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Foyer of an Apartment, from the series "Uptown, Chicago", 1965, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Mother with Her Three Children, from the series "Uptown, Chicago", 1965, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Brothers and Sisters by a Delivery Truck, from the series "Uptown, Chicago", 1965, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Children on Ice Cream Vendor's Box, from the series "Uptown, Chicago", 1965, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Mary, Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972

Danny Lyon

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