Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Jeremiah X Stand Across the Street from the Bombed Church

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Photograph by John Bentham.
Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Jeremiah X Stand Across the Street from the Bombed Church
Photograph by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1963, printed 2010
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (32.7 × 22.2 cm) Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas
Object number2015.11.11
Not on view
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Provenance 2015: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas.
Markings Stamp: "Printer U [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 63 [in pencil] / Print Date 10 [in pencil]" on verso in red ink.
Published References Illustrated: Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), p. 92.
Signature Signed "DLyon" on verso at lower center in pencil.
Inscribed "DLC20" on verso at upper right in pencil.
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Dr. King Leads Off Second Lap: Dr. Martin Luther King, extreme right, civil rights leader, strides out of camp near Selma, Alabama, as his protest march started its second lap. Next to King is SNCC Chairman John Lewis. A soldier ordered to duty along with several thousand troops to guard the marchers, stands with rifle along the roadside. The marchers are aiming for the State Capitol at Montgomery.
Unknown artist
Date: March 22, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.277
Photo by Dave Revette.
Segregation signs still stand oustide the Jackson, Mississippi Bus Terminal
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962 (printed 2010)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.16
Photograph by John Bentham.
Outside, Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal wait to get in [a Nashville Tic Toc restaurant]
Danny Lyon
Date: 1962, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.36
View from a Gold Street rooftop looking east toward the rear of Fulton Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
View from a Gold Street rooftop looking east toward the rear of Fulton Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.58
187 West Street, between Duane and Reade Streets, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
187 West Street, between Duane and Reade Streets, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.48
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
A Reade Street entrance to 187 West Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.49
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.37
View south from 100 Gold Street, Lower Manhattan, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
View south from 100 Gold Street, Lower Manhattan, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.81
View from my loft, looking north on William Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
View from my loft, looking north on William Street, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.59
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Ford in the Street, from the series "Knoxville"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.11.9
View south on Cliff Street at its intersection with Beekman, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
View south on Cliff Street at its intersection with Beekman, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.60
West Street and the West Side Highway, just north of the Trade Center site, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
West Street and the West Side Highway, just north of the Trade Center site, from the series "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1967; printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.61