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Selected Images from the Exhibition

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March on Washington
Leonard Freed
1963
Gelatin silver print
March on Washington
Leonard Freed
1963
Gelatin silver print
Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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John Lewis in Nashville
Danny Lyon
1963 (Printed later)
Gelatin Silver Print
John Lewis in Nashville
Danny Lyon
1963 (Printed later)
Gelatin Silver Print
Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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Outside, Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal...
Danny Lyon
1962 (Printed later)
Gelatin silver print
Outside, Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal...
Danny Lyon
1962 (Printed later)
Gelatin silver print
Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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Full title: Outside, Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal Wait to Get In (a Nashville Tic Toc Restaurant). Illustrated: Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movements, (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), p. 50.

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As Demonstrators Block Traffic to Protest Segregation
Danny Lyon
1963 (Printed later)
Gelatin silver print
As Demonstrators Block Traffic to Protest Segregation
Danny Lyon
1963 (Printed later)
Gelatin silver print
Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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Full title/Description: As demonstrators block traffic to protest segregation and unfair hiring practices in downtown Atlanta, a mob begins to abuse them with kicks, blows, and burning cigarettes. An anonymous woman walking by with a box of typing paper confronts the mob and for a while holds them at bay. When someone yells, "If you feel that way, why don't you marry one of them?" she sits down and joins the demonstrators, 1963. Illustrated: Danny Lyon, "Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement", (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992), p. 126.

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Lester Maddox Announces He Will Serve Negroes
Unidentified Associated Press Photographer
1965
Associated Press wire photo
Lester Maddox Announces He Will Serve Negroes
Unidentified Associated Press Photographer
1965
Associated Press wire photo
Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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Full title: Lester Maddox Announces He Will Serve Negroes: Atlanta restaurant operator and arch segregationist Lester Maddox and his wife weep as he announces he will serve Negroes. His customers also wept. Federal Judge Frank Hooper yesterday ordered Maddox to pay a $200 fine each day his restaurant was open and practiced racial discrimination. He said he was not surrendering "but only accepting that which is being forced upon us.", February 6, 1965

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Struggle & Resistance

September 1, 2020 - May 21, 2021
LUAG Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center
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Tuesday 11AM - 7PM,
Wednesday 11AM - 5PM,
Thursday 11 AM - 7PM,
Friday 11 AM - 5PM,
Saturday 1PM - 5PM,
Sunday - Monday Closed

Selections from Doing Democracy: Photography from the George Stephanopoulos Collection

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was a turning point in United States history.  Emerging from a time of segregation, the images in this section highlight the struggle for change and the forces that resisted it. 

View the full exhibition on JSTOR.

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Grace Vigorito '22 and Tracie Dinh '22 discuss Danny Lyon's "As Demonstrators Block Traffic to Protest Segregation," 1963

Grace Vigorito '22 and Tracie Dinh '22 discuss Danny Lyon's "As Demonstrators Block Traffic to Protest Segregation," 1963.

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Tracie Dinh '22 discusses Danny Lyon's "John Lewis in Nashville," 1963.

Tracie Dinh '22 discusses Danny Lyon's "John Lewis in Nashville," 1963.

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Honora Campbell '22 discusses "Lester Maddox Announces He Will Serve Negroes," 1968

A Word About The Text:

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Sara Sanchez Rivera '23 discusses Leonard Freed's "March on Washington, Washington D.C." 1963

Sara Sanchez Rivera '23 discusses Leonard Freed's "March on Washington, Washington, D.C." 1963

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