Research Catalog

Title

Civil rights activities in the American South / Matt Harron.

Author

Herron, Matt, 1931-2020

Publication

©1978

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 54 items (.2 cubic ft., one box); 21 x 26 cm
• 54 photographic prints : gelatin silver, balck and white ;

Summary

• Depictions of civil rights activities in the American South, specifically the voting rights campaign in Alabama and Mississippi, from 1963 to 1966, consisting of candid shots and group portraits of civil rights leaders and activists; views of participants, local African American and White residents, and law enforcement along march routes; and views of rallies and church gatherings, voter registration drives, police activities, White segregationists, classrooms, and a funeral. A major portion of the collection depicts the third Selma to Montgomery (Ala.) March for Voting Rights (1965). Also of note are views of SNCC activist Willie "Preacher" Shaw urging African Americans to register to vote, in Belzoni, Miss. (1963), a related rally supporting the Council of Federated Organizations president Aaron Henry's mock election bid for governor of Mississippi (1963); and views of a church meeting, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in response to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, in Birmingham, Ala. (1963).
• Also included are views of Malcolm X's funeral and burial in New York (1965); and a view of a White Mississippi patrolman trying to grab an American flag away from an African American child during a voting rights protest in Jackson, Miss., an image that later received the 2nd place prize from World Press Photo, in the Photo Stories category (1965). Other individuals depicted include Fanny Lou Hamer, James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael.

Subjects

• Gelatin silver prints > 1970-1979
• Group portraits > 1970-1979
• Portrait photographs > 1970-1979
• United States > Race relations
• Funeral rites & ceremonies > New York (State) > 1960-1969
• Police > Southern States
• Meetings
• Voter registration > Mississippi > 1960-1969
• Civil rights demonstrations > Mississippi > 1960-1969
• Civil rights demonstrations > Alabama > 1960-1969
• Civil rights workers > Southern States
• African American civil rights workers > Southern States
• African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
• Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1970-1979.
• Group portraits – 1970-1979.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1970-1979.

Note

• Title based on photo captions.
• All photographs bear printed caption labels, with photographer's name, descriptive information, and usage and copyright information, attached to verso. One item bears photographer's hand stamp; two items bear handwritten captions.

Terms of Use (note)

• Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• Matt Herron, 1931-2020, was an American photojournalist, documentary photographer and social activist, known for his involvement in the civil rights movement in the American South during the 1960s. He was a photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped to organize the Southern Documentary Project that documented the rapid social changes occuring in the Deep South. Since the 1980s, Herron had been involved with media photographer organizations, and had lectured on such topics as copyright, electronic image marketing systems, and business practices in photography.

Call Number

Sc Photo Portfolio (Herron, M.)

OCLC

1285299152

Author

Herron, Matt, 1931-2020 , photographer.

Title

Civil rights activities in the American South / Matt Harron.

Copyright Date

©1978

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Terms Of Use

Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

Matt Herron, 1931-2020, was an American photojournalist, documentary photographer and social activist, known for his involvement in the civil rights movement in the American South during the 1960s. He was a photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped to organize the Southern Documentary Project that documented the rapid social changes occuring in the Deep South. Since the 1980s, Herron had been involved with media photographer organizations, and had lectured on such topics as copyright, electronic image marketing systems, and business practices in photography.

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Sc Photo Portfolio (Herron, M.)