Reprinting of “Memories of the Civil Rights Movement” by Danny Lyon
The Andrew Goodman Foundation is pleased to announce the reissue of “Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement”, a groundbreaking photographic chronicle by legendary photographer Danny Lyon. The Foundation provided financial support for this important project. In the original 1992 edition, Julian Bond wrote in the forward…”Danny Lyon took pictures for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1962 to 1964… Danny Lyon was Twenty, SNCC was two. He was as idealistic as the rest of us… Inquisitive, New York-y, rumpled, he joined the band of brothers and circle of trust as the first of several fine photographers who documented, recorded, and froze the movement and its supporters and opponents into black and white.”   The 2010 reissue of this pivotal book of magnificent photographs and journalistic essays will feature an afterward by Congressman John Lewis.

To learn more and for ordering info, visit the publisher’s website >

Premiere of Neshoba: The Price of Freedom

Neshoba, a film by Pro Bono Productions and Pagano Productions, documents the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil right workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. Although Klansmen bragged openly about what they did in 1964, no one was held accountable until 2005, when the State indicted Preacher Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year old notorious racist and alleged mastermind of the killings. Through intimate interviews with the families of the victims, candid interviews with black and white Neshoba County citizens, and exclusive, first time, interviews with Killen, the film explores whether the prosecution of one unrepentant Klansman constitutes justice and whether real healing and reconciliation are possible without telling the unvarnished truth. Neshoba won the Boston Film Festival Best Documentary Award 2008, Best Documentary 2008 Indie Memphis Film Festival, Best Directors of a Documentary and Best Political Documentary 2008 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The New York premiere

The theatrical premiere of Neshoba will be held on August 13th at Cinema Village in NYC followed by the LA premiere on September 10th. For details about the upcoming screenings and to view trailers, visit First Run Features >

View photos of preview screening event at Columbia University>