Caption for Members of SNCC Praying at Burned-Out Church, Dawson, Georgia

Unidentified Photographer, Members of SNCC Praying at Burned-Out Church, Dawson, Georgia, 1962, gelatin silver print, 8 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Sandra Anderson Baccus in loving memory of Lloyd Tevis Baccus, M.D., 2007.106.

Transcribed caption: “AJP090902-9/9/62-DAWSON, GA.: Members of the interracial Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee stand in a semi-circle, hands locked and heads bowed in prayer, beside the smouldering [sic] ruins of the Mount Mary church at nearby Chickasawatchee community. The church was one of two Negro houses of worship destroyed by fire early 9/9 in the latest of a series of racially-connected fires and shootings in this area. UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL TELEPHOTO-F WL”