This important documentary photobook was the first publication in which Danny Lyon's photographs appear. It chronicles the inhumane struggles faced by the African-American community, published at the height of political tension in 1964. It's raw, uncompromising photographs document the struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern States of the US during the 1960s on behalf of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. As Wallis notes, "many of Lyon’s most vivid civil rights photographs capture violent clashes between protesters and armed police... Such risky frontline pictures were less spot news than an embedded insider’s dispatches, ones with immense propaganda value. Rather than publishing these images in Life or exhibiting them in museums, Lyon used these for political purposes, as images for SNCC posters and pamphlets." "Lyon’s galvanizing work for SNCC culminated in the book The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality, published in 1964 by Simon & Schuster as a pulpy mass-market paperback. Though it bears the name of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote the text, the book was shaped by Lyon, and most of the riveting pictures are by him, including the dramatic cover photograph portraying African American high schooler Taylor Washington yelling as a helmeted policeman drags him off in a choke hold." Brian Wallis, In Cold Blood: The Art of Danny Lyon With text written by Lorraine Hansberry, this book highlights the 'struggle for the humanization of our country', documenting all aspects of the 'social revolution', from the 'dauntless good humor of a twelve-year-old girl in a Georgia jail' to the 'rage and hatred of a Ku Klux Klansman'. Danny Lyon's is best known for such influential titles as The Bikeriders and Conversations With The Dead (included in The Photobook Volume 1 and 2 by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). While Danny Lyon's photographs make up most of the book, there are additional images by other Magnum photographers such as: - Roy DeCarava - Robert Frank - Dave Heath - Frank Danridge - Bob Adelman - Don Charles Condition: Very good. First edition, first printing by Simon and Schuster from 1964. Minor wear and creasing to cover and tiny creasing to edges of some pages. The tops of 2 pages were not cut properly by the printers at the time of publication and have tiny cuts out of them. Former owner's name on title page. Green mark on underside of page block. Interior clean and fresh. Binding tight. Please examine listing photos carefully.