Black History Month: The SNCC
February is Black History Month. This month in 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they’d been refused service. Directly inspired by this and the nonviolent teachings of Gandhi, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed and continued to stage nonviolent protests for civil rights. Magnum presents the work of the SNCC. Photo gallery produced by Zena Koo. ATLANTA—The SNCC staff sit-in, 1963.
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Book of the Week  RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray  © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. [You have] to put the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture—otherwise it is just a document. René Burri |
