The MACC's Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement exhibit will run January 13 - February 19. The exhibit features the work of Danny Lyon, a photographer, filmmaker and historian.
A self-taught photographer and a graduate of the University of Chicago, Lyon began his photographic career in the early 1960s as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 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. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions documenting the Civil Rights Movement. The photographs were published in The Movement, a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and later in Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Lyon’s own memoir of his years working for the SNCC.
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This event takes place in the City of Rancho Cordova, which is part of the Sacramento region.