Bettye Lane, a photojournalist, ” gained wide recognition for her rich trove of pictures documenting the feminist movement in the 1970s and ’80s. Her pictures of women pumping their fists and waving banners as thousands marched down Fifth Avenue captured the energy and passion of the moment. …
“Ms. Lane turned her lens as well on civil rights demonstrations, war demonstrations during the Vietnam era and marches for gay rights. She was one of the few photographers to document the Stonewall protests in Greenwich Village. … The New York Public Library houses many of her photographs of the gay-rights struggle.”
–Leslie Kaufman, New York Times, Sept. 21, 2012