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January 2019

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Danny Lyon: Memories of Southern Civil Rights (Exhibit on Display)

Ontario Museum of History & Art 225 South Euclid Avenue
Ontario, CA 91762 United States

Thursday, January 31, 2019 to Sunday, March 17, 2019 Based upon Danny Lyon’s memoir, this exhibit brings together the photographs he took from 1962 to 1964 while traveling through the United States documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Lyon began his photographic career as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a national group of college students who joined together in 1960 after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch…

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