Matt Herron served as a volunteer photographer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) primarily in Alabama and Mississippi during the 1960’s. In the summer of 1964, Herron organized a team of eight photographers, The Southern Documentary Project, in an attempt to record the rapid social change taking place in the South. Photographer Dorothea Lange served as informal adviser to the project. His photographs were published in LIFE, LOOK and in other national press. The 1965 Selma marches were pivotal events in the Civil Rights Movement, bringing international attention to the brutality of racist segregation and amplifying Alabama’s denial of voting rights to African Americans. Herron’s powerful photographs convey not just the political but the personal impact of this momentous struggle.
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