SNCC – with Danny Lyon

Wednesday, October 28
5pm-7pm, Kulynych Auditorium – Byrum Welcome Center

On Wednesday, October 28th at 5pm, there will be a film screening of the 2020 documentary SNCC on photographer Danny Lyon’s work with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, followed by a Q&A with Lyon at the Scales Fine Arts Center on the Wake Forest University Campus. The exhibition Flash Point at Reynolda House Museum of American Art debuts more than fifty gifts promised to Wake Forest University by James and Wendy Agah, parents of a current student and a recent alumnus. The collection represents the largest single gift of photographs in the university’s history and allows a comprehensive understanding of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.

Danny Lyon photographed the violence, but he was also able to elevate the organizers, planners, orators, scribes, and publicists of a complex national network of youthful patriots engaged in direct, non-violent action. For their own sake—and the nation’s—they courageously pursued a course charted by Dr. King: “The way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.” The exhibition is co-curated by Phil Archer, Betsy Main Babcock Deputy Director, and Ashley Givens, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art at Wake Forest University. The exhibition runs through January 3, 2027.