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, 1963

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, 1963

Image: overall

Street Scenes; Civil Rights demonstrations; Documentary photography; Civil Rights Movement; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Automobiles; Civil Rights activists

Gift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas

Lyon, Danny (American photographer, 1942 - )

Trinity College Art Collection, Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut, USA)

Photography Collection

80137

Trinity College Art Collection

1963 (later print)

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paper

gelatin silver process

11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

Gelatin silver print

80137