Description
Central to a decades-long study of the significance of the Civil Rights era in American history as it unfolded in Danville, Virginia is this documentary exhibit. Portraits by Charlottesville photographer Tom Cogill, and text panels by Edmonds help tell the story of the civil rights protests, violence and protracted legal struggle that gripped Danville during the summer of 1963, the fall campaign of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the role of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in that city. The exhibit is online at the Virginia Center for Digital History (http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/cslk/danville/). Spring 2015
