“In 1968, I was still working as a social worker and taking classes at Columbia University. At the time, the black students held a demonstration because they were not allowed to have black history classes at the university. They held a sit-in in Hamilton Hall, and I crawled through a window and locked myself in with the students for a couple of days. I took pictures and sold them to the New York Times, and that was the first time I was ever published. They were covering the story and running my pictures every day, and I even made the cover a few times. I sold all of those photos for something like maybe $75 or $85.” – See more at: http://www.artsatl.com/2014/12/qa-clarence-davis-hammonds-house/#sthash.QW4GNUue.dpuf