Research Catalog

Title

Bob Fletcher collection.

Author

Fletcher, Robert, 1938-

Publication

[1962?]-1989.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Alper, Joe
• Harris, Doug
• Lyon, Danny
• Moore, Charles, 1931-2010
• Schapiro, Steve
• Varela, Mary
• Wakayama, Tom
• Black Star (Picture agency)
• Magnum Photos, agency.

Description

• 73 items (.2 cubic ft., one box); 21 x 26 cm and smaller.
• 55 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;
• 17 contact sheets : gelatin silver, black and white ;
• 1 negative : gelatin silver, black and white ;

Summary

• Depictions primarily of the activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign in 1964, documented by SNCC photographer Bob Fletcher. Also included is work collected by Fletcher that was done by fellow SNCC photographers and non SNCC-affiliated photographers, depicting SNCC activities from 1963 to 1966. Some images are only available as contact sheets. Depictions of non-SNCC activities are limited.
• The collection consists of posed portraits of SNCC staff; candid shots and views of SNCC organizers and volunteers, Freedom School students, and African Americans from local communities; and views of SNCC meetings, rallies and picket lines, voter registration drives, a theatrical performance, freedom song performances, SNCC members conducting Freedom School classes, construction projects, exterior views of a Freedom School and local dwellings, and SNCC signage. Of note are depictions of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party during the 1964 Democratic National Convention, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Among the activists depicted are Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Stokely Carmichael, playwright Jenny Franklin, and singer Pete Seeger, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at a Selma, Alabama, church meeting (1965).

Subject

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• Mississippi Freedom Project
• Mississippi Freedom Schools
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Civil rights movements > United States
• African American civil rights workers
• Civil rights workers > United States
• African Americans > Social conditions
• African Americans > Political activity
• Voter registration > Mississippi
• Demonstrations > United States > 1960-1969
• Meetings

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1960-1969.
• Group portraits – 1960-1989.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1960-1989.
• Contact sheets – 1960-1969.
• Negatives – 1980-1989.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs bear photographer's hand stamp on verso; some items bear organization's hand stamp on verso. Some items bear handwritten captions on verso; some items have printed caption labels attached to verso; one item has a film overlay with text attached to recto. Some items are cropped; some contact sheets bear selection marks on recto. Some items are duplicates.
• Collection contains work by Bob Fletcher, Danny Lyon, Steve Schapiro and Mary Varela, among others.

Terms of Use (note)

• Some items may be under copyright and require permission of the copyright holder for duplication.

Biography (note)

• Robert E. Fletcher, born in Detroit, Michigan in 1938, was a photojournalist and filmmaker. He is known for his work as a photojournalist for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1964 to 1968, and for his work on documentary films about the independence movement in Portugese colonial Africa, "A Luta Continua" (Angola, 1971) and "O Povo Organizado" (Mozambique, 1975). Aside from being a freelance photojournalist, filmmaker and film professor, Fletcher also graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1990, and has since practiced law in New York City.

Call Number

Sc Photo Bob Fletcher Collection

OCLC

1011682666

Author

Fletcher, Robert, 1938- collector.

Title

Bob Fletcher collection.

Production

[1962?]-1989.

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Terms Of Use

Some items may be under copyright and require permission of the copyright holder for duplication.

Biography

Robert E. Fletcher, born in Detroit, Michigan in 1938, was a photojournalist and filmmaker. He is known for his work as a photojournalist for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1964 to 1968, and for his work on documentary films about the independence movement in Portugese colonial Africa, "A Luta Continua" (Angola, 1971) and "O Povo Organizado" (Mozambique, 1975). Aside from being a freelance photojournalist, filmmaker and film professor, Fletcher also graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1990, and has since practiced law in New York City.

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Added Author

Fletcher, Robert, 1938- photographer.

Alper, Joe, photographer.

Harris, Doug, photographer.

Lyon, Danny, photographer.

Moore, Charles, 1931-2010, photographer.

Schapiro, Steve, photographer.

Varela, Mary, photographer.

Wakayama, Tom, photographer.

Black Star (Picture agency)

Magnum Photos, agency.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Bob Fletcher Collection