Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. SNCC Workers Outside the Funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

CultureAmerican

Date1963, printed 1999

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Overall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)

InscribedDate, print number, and a credit to Chuck Kelton (who made the print) appears on the verso of the print.

Credit LinePurchase, gift of Patricia L. Raymond

Object number2000.14.15

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. African American women stand on a street, one holding an American flag. Many people stand behind them. There is an umbrella in the background.

Label TextDanny Lyon American, b. 1942 Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. SNCC Workers Outside the Funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby, September 18, 1963 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1999 As they mourn the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, buttons reading “We Shall Overcome” identify this group as fieldworkers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Wearing a bandana on the far right stands Doris Derby, whose participation in SNCC protests and literacy programs led to a university teaching career and work as a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and with funds provided by Patricia L. Raymond, M.D. 2000.14.15 ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 96-97.