Bob Fletcher collection.
- Title
- Bob Fletcher collection.
- Published by
- [1962?]-1989.
- Author
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints. | FormatStill image | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc Photo Bob Fletcher Collection | Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- 73 items (.2 cubic ft., one box); 21 x 26 cm and smaller.
- Summary
- Depictions primarily of the activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign in 1964, documented by SNCC photographer Bob Fletcher. Also included is work collected by Fletcher that was done by fellow SNCC photographers and non SNCC-affiliated photographers, depicting SNCC activities from 1963 to 1966. Some images are only available as contact sheets. Depictions of non-SNCC activities are limited.
- The collection consists of posed portraits of SNCC staff; candid shots and views of SNCC organizers and volunteers, Freedom School students, and African Americans from local communities; and views of SNCC meetings, rallies and picket lines, voter registration drives, a theatrical performance, freedom song performances, SNCC members conducting Freedom School classes, construction projects, exterior views of a Freedom School and local dwellings, and SNCC signage. Of note are depictions of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party during the 1964 Democratic National Convention, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Among the activists depicted are Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Stokely Carmichael, playwright Jenny Franklin, and singer Pete Seeger, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at a Selma, Alabama, church meeting (1965).
- Subject
- Negatives > 1980-1989
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- Meetings
- Civil rights workers > United States
- African Americans > Political activity
- Group portraits > 1960-1989
- Mississippi Freedom Schools
- Civil rights movements > United States
- Demonstrations > United States > 1960-1969
- Gelatin silver prints > 1960-1989
- Voter registration > Mississippi
- African American civil rights workers
- Contact sheets > 1960-1969
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Mississippi Freedom Project
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Portrait photographs > 1960-1969
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1960-1969.
- Group portraits – 1960-1989.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1960-1989.
- Contact sheets – 1960-1969.
- Negatives – 1980-1989.
- Call number
- Sc Photo Bob Fletcher Collection
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some photographs bear photographer's hand stamp on verso; some items bear organization's hand stamp on verso. Some items bear handwritten captions on verso; some items have printed caption labels attached to verso; one item has a film overlay with text attached to recto. Some items are cropped; some contact sheets bear selection marks on recto. Some items are duplicates.
- Collection contains work by Bob Fletcher, Danny Lyon, Steve Schapiro and Mary Varela, among others.
- Terms of use (note)
- Some items may be under copyright and require permission of the copyright holder for duplication.
- Biography (note)
- Robert E. Fletcher, born in Detroit, Michigan in 1938, was a photojournalist and filmmaker. He is known for his work as a photojournalist for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1964 to 1968, and for his work on documentary films about the independence movement in Portugese colonial Africa, "A Luta Continua" (Angola, 1971) and "O Povo Organizado" (Mozambique, 1975). Aside from being a freelance photojournalist, filmmaker and film professor, Fletcher also graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1990, and has since practiced law in New York City.
- Author
- Fletcher, Robert, 1938- collector.
- Title
- Bob Fletcher collection.
- Production
- [1962?]-1989.
- Type of content
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- sheet
- Terms of use
- Some items may be under copyright and require permission of the copyright holder for duplication.
- Biography
- Robert E. Fletcher, born in Detroit, Michigan in 1938, was a photojournalist and filmmaker. He is known for his work as a photojournalist for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1964 to 1968, and for his work on documentary films about the independence movement in Portugese colonial Africa, "A Luta Continua" (Angola, 1971) and "O Povo Organizado" (Mozambique, 1975). Aside from being a freelance photojournalist, filmmaker and film professor, Fletcher also graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1990, and has since practiced law in New York City.
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- Added author
- Fletcher, Robert, 1938- photographer.
- Alper, Joe, photographer.
- Harris, Doug, photographer.
- Lyon, Danny, photographer.
- Moore, Charles, 1931-2010, photographer.
- Schapiro, Steve, photographer.
- Varela, Mary, photographer.
- Wakayama, Tom, photographer.
- Black Star (Picture agency)
- Magnum Photos, agency.
- Research call number
- Sc Photo Bob Fletcher Collection