The art: Danny Lyon, March on Washington, August 28, 1964 (left), Danny Lyon, “Now,” Poster for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, circa 1964. 

The news: “How Voter ID Laws Are Being Used to Disenfranchise Minorities and the Poor,” by Andrew Cohen for TheAtlantic.com. 

The source: The photograph at left is in the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The poster at right is in the McCain Library and Archives, Ellin Summer Freedom Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This exhibition of Lyon’s work goes on view at The Menil Collection in Houston later this month.

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