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Leesburg, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside.
Leesburg, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside.

Leesburg, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside.

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1963
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsImage Size: 9 x 13 3/16 inches
Mat Size: 16 x 20
Object Size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by the Memorial Art Fund
Object number2001.010.11
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
Southwest Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement SNCC field secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle visit a supporter in the countryside. Sherrod is currently a member of the Albany City Council.
Southwest Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
SNCC field secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle visit a supporter in the countryside. Sherrod is currently a member of the Albany City Council.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.21
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement The window of the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four teenage girls are killed by a KKK bomb two weeks after the March on Washington.
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
The window of the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four teenage girls are killed by a KKK bomb two weeks after the March on Washington.
Danny Lyon
1963, September 12
Object number: 2001.010.33
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement A friend of the murdered teenage girls enters the church for their funeral.
Birmingham, Alabama, additional photograph from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A friend of the murdered teenage girls enters the church for their funeral.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.35
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Eddie Brown, former gang leader and movement activist is arrested.
Albany, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Eddie Brown, former gang leader and movement activist is arrested.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.05
Atlanta, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement High school student Taylor Washington is arrested at Lebs Delicatessen. His eighth arrest.
Atlanta, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
High school student Taylor Washington is arrested at Lebs Delicatessen. His eighth arrest.
Danny Lyon
1963-64, winter
Object number: 2001.010.24
Selma, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two young men demonstrating for voter registration on the steps of the federal building.
Selma, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two young men demonstrating for voter registration on the steps of the federal building.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.18
Cambridge, Maryland from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested.
Cambridge, Maryland from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested.
Danny Lyon
1964
Object number: 2001.010.27
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.13
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.14
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just before he spoke at the funeral of the four murdered girls.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just before he spoke at the funeral of the four murdered girls.
Danny Lyon
1963
Object number: 2001.010.16
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Highway patrolmen outside the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young girls were murdered.
Danny Lyon
1963/printed later
Object number: 2014.140
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Birmingham, Alabama from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Crowds wait along the funeral route of the girls murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Danny Lyon
1963/printed later
Object number: 2014.141