Doris Derby | |
|---|---|
 Derby in 2014 | |
| Born | November 11, 1939 |
| Died | March 28, 2022 (aged 82) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Activist, photographer, educator |
| Known for | Civil rights photography |
| Spouse |
Robert A. Banks (m. 1995) |
Doris Adelaide Derby (November 11, 1939 – March 28, 2022) was an American activist and documentary photographer. She was the adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Georgia State University and the founding director of their Office of African-American Student Services and Programs. She was active in the Mississippi civil rights movement, and her work discusses the themes of race and African-American identity. She was a working member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and co-founder of the Free Southern Theater. Her photography has been exhibited internationally. Two of her photographs were published in Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, to which she also contributed an essay about her experiences in the Mississippi civil rights movement.[2]
- ^ Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. 2010. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-252-03557-9.
- ^ Holsaert, Faith S., Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner (2010). Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (1st ed.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. pp. 271, 436. 437, 438. ISBN 9780252035579.
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