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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
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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)
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)
ClassificationsCivil Rights Movement
Credit LinePurchase, gift of Patricia L. Raymond
Object number2000.14.15
Terms
  • History
  • Civil Rights
  • Flag
  • Women
  • African-American Theme
  • Black
  • White
  • Documentary
  • Birmingham, Alabama
On View
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
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Crowds Wait Along the Funeral Route of the Girls Murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Highway Patrolmen, Outside the Site of the Bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, Where Four Young Girls Were Murdered
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964. Fannie Lou Hamer, Sharecropper from a Family of Twenty, Evicted for Trying to Register, Beaten in the Winona Jail, SNCC Field Secretary from Ruleville, and Future Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Candidate for Congress
Danny Lyon
1964, printed 1999
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Southwest Georgia, 1963. SNCC Field Secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle Visit a Supporter in the Countryside
Danny Lyon
1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Ruleville, Mississippi, 1964. Gwen Gillon, a SNCC Staff Member from Alabama, Conducts a Literacy Class During Freedom Summer
Danny Lyon
1964, printed 1999
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Firemen Trying to Dislodge Demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963
Charles Moore
1963
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2020.
SNCC field secretary, later SNCC chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration
Danny Lyon
1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested
Danny Lyon
1964
Untitled (Bishop Frederick Jordan, Ame Baptist Church, T. O. Jones, Head of Sanitation Workers, Walter Ruether, United Auto Workers, Lead Commemorative March), Memphis, Tennessee
Untitled (Bishop Frederick Jordan, Ame Baptist Church, T. O. Jones, Head of Sanitation Workers, Walter Ruether, United Auto Workers, Lead Commemorative March), Memphis, Tennessee
Ernest C. Withers
April 8, 1968
Jeering Mob, Birmingham, Alabama
Jeering Mob, Birmingham, Alabama
Charles Moore
1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Leesburg, Georgia, 1963. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside
Danny Lyon
August 1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Atlanta, Georgia, Winter 1963/64. Arrests During Mass Demonstrations Downtown
Danny Lyon
1963-1964, printed 1999
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