This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement

This exhibit presents the work of nine photographers from diverse backgrounds that in the 1960's lived and photographed from within the Southern Freedom Movement. They were "movement photographers," decidedly distinct from news photographers, and their images reflect that difference. Seven photographed for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the only civil rights organization with its own photogrpahy department. The other two photographed for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

Although this exhibit mainly focuses on SNCC's work and on the battleground states of Mississippi and Alabama during the years 1963-1966, these photographs shine a light that reveals the inner life of the whole southern freedom struggle.