Details

Title

Grass Roots Organizer, Mississippi

Artist/Maker

Doris Derby (American, 1939–2022)

Date

1968

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from Jeff and Valerie Levy

Accession #

2007.188

On View

Currently not on view

Dr. Doris Derby was an educator, anthropologist, and photojournalist based in Atlanta. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was an active member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the Adult Literacy Project. Derby’s photographs reflected her interest in and concern for the role of poor, disenfranchised women during the movement. Many women had been fired from their jobs for registering to vote; in response, they built skill-based cooperatives and community groups that kept their families and communities together in very difficult times.

Image Copyright

© Estate of Doris Derby.