During her time SNCC, Derby worked as a photographer, an educator, and grassroots organizer. She realized that in order to see Black life portrayed in a realistic and honest way, she would have to create and share these images herself. As Derby got older, she became “interested in pursuing and learning more about the African heritage and African and African American images,” since she rarely saw images of Black people in books and magazines. Originally hailing from the Bronx, Doris Derby recounted that she “was very privileged to grow up in New York City, because in Manhattan we had something call the Schomburg Library.” The Library gave her a place to learn about the African Diaspora. In Albany she immediately realized they “needed all hands on deck,” and began working as a liaison between SNCC organizers and individuals who had been arrested. So she decided to go there herself.īefore Derby arrived in Albany she was told, “Well, if you’re going to go to Albany, Georgia, you have to to go to Atlanta first and meet up with the SNCC folk.” So Derby spent one week in Atlanta talking to SNCC activists and waiting until SNCC executive secretary, Jim Forman and Bob Zellner were ready to go to Albany. While taking a bus trip with a friend to Mexico, Derby heard that Dammond was jailed in Albany. Peggy Dammond, a friend and colleague of Derby’s at school was the first student she knew to head to Albany, Georgia in the summer of 1962. NSM met with students and community leaders to discuss segregation, sit-ins, and Freedom Rides to show how young people could support the Movement. Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby outside 16th Street Baptist Church funeral, September 1963, Danny Lyon, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement 26, ĭoris Adelaide Derby came into SNCC with the experience she gained in the Northern Student Movement (NSM) as a student Hunter College in Manhattan, New York.
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