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The mass meeting in Danville is so crowded that it overflows out into the yard. When word arrives that heavily armed police and an armored vehicle are waiting up the road, the crowd disperses, leaving the SNCC workers to exit last, from “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement”

Danny Lyon

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The mass meeting in Danville is so crowded that it overflows out into the yard. When word arrives that heavily armed police and an armored vehicle are waiting up the road, the crowd disperses, leaving the SNCC workers to exit last, from “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement”
1963; printed 2010
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
11 x 14 in. ( 27.94 x 35.56 cm )
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2014/2.321

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A group of people outside of a church praying because there is no more room inside. The streets are covered with parked cars.

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