june, 2022
01jun10:00 am30(jun 30)4:00 pmDanny Lyons: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Event Details
Opening on April 2, 2022, Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement will feature 57 photographs documenting the Civil Rights Movement by Danny Lyon, a giant of post-WWII documentary photography
Event Details
Opening on April 2, 2022, Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement will feature 57 photographs documenting the Civil Rights Movement by Danny Lyon, a giant of post-WWII documentary photography and film. The exhibition will include photographs made by Lyon as he traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions from 1963 to 1964 as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a national group of college students who joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter.
Open Tues – Sun
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Time
1 (Wednesday) 10:00 am - 30 (Thursday) 4:00 pm
Location
Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
9 Amherst St.