Have one like this?
Upload a photo for a free check of what yours may be worth.
Lot description
Danny Lyon SNCC / Is He Protecting You? vintage poster c. 1963 14 h x 22 w in (36 x 56 cm) Captured by notable American photographer Danny Lyon in the early 1960s for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this poster distills a charged moment of the civil rights movement into a stark visual challenge. Using one of Lyon's documentary photographs of a Mississippi highway patrolman, the work pairs the image with a confrontational question that forces viewers to reconsider the role of law enforcement in maintaining segregation and suppressing Black activism. Produced as part of SNCC's grassroots organizing and fundraising efforts, the poster exemplifies how photography was repurposed as a direct, persuasive tool for social and political critique during this period. Lincoln Lithograph Company, Los Angeles Literature: Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century, Young, fig. 30 This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.