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Atlanta, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement An anonymous woman, who has come upon a mob abusing demonstrators with kicks, blows, and burning cigarettes. She holds the mob at bay and protects the demonstrators.
Atlanta, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement An anonymous woman, who has come upon a mob abusing demonstrators with kicks, blows, and burning cigarettes. She holds the mob at bay and protects the demonstrators.

Atlanta, Georgia from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
An anonymous woman, who has come upon a mob abusing demonstrators with kicks, blows, and burning cigarettes. She holds the mob at bay and protects the demonstrators.

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1963-64, winter
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsImage Size: 9 x 13 1/4 inches
Mat Size: 16 x 20
Object Size: 10 15/16 x 13 7/8 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by the Memorial Art Fund
Object number2001.010.23
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
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Cairo, Illinois from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Demonstrators at the “all white” swimming pool.
Danny Lyon
1962
Object number: 2001.010.02
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A crowd watches the demonstrators returning to the city hall steps from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
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1963/printed later
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93. Curry County, Oregon. . . . the poor joiner, working at his wood, Knew not the tree from which the planks were taken, Knew not the glade from which the trunk was brought, Knew not the soil in which the roots were fast, Nor by what centuries of gales the boughs were shaken, But holds them all beneath his hands at last V. Sackville-West How much more difficult it is to imagine the origin of a sheet of chip board. As John Hay has written, we are “destroyers who are incapable of identifying our victims.”From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.093
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Atlanta, Georgia: A Toddle House has the distinction of being occupied during a sit-in by some of America’s most effective organizers. In the room are Taylor Washington, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Joyce Ladner, John Lewis behind Judy Richardson, George Green, and Chico Neblett. from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Danny Lyon
1963-64, winter
Object number: 2001.010.25
Louise’s 66th Birthday Party: When Louise joined, the group was known as the Womens Improvement Club. Now it's the Pleasanton Womens Club. She has been instrumental in every major project that has helped to better the community. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California from the series Our Kind of People
Louise’s 66th Birthday Party: When Louise joined, the group was known as the Womens Improvement Club. Now it's the Pleasanton Womens Club. She has been instrumental in every major project that has helped to better the community. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California from the series Our Kind of People
Bill Owens
1969-75
Object number: 2017.349
A demonstrator refused to stop blocking traffic. The police removed him bodily
A demonstrator refused to stop blocking traffic. The police removed him bodily
Leonard Freed
1976
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Le peuple juge les coups. [The People will judge the blows.] from the series Actualités, number 252, published in Le Charivari
Le peuple juge les coups.
[The People will judge the blows.]
from the series Actualités, number 252, published in Le Charivari
Honoré Daumier
published November 18, 1851
Object number: 1981.009
Worker blows horn, as telephone lines are fixed underground, Amsterdam, Holland
Worker blows horn, as telephone lines are fixed underground, Amsterdam, Holland
Leonard Freed
1958
Object number: 2016.212
In a Camp for the Amboneze, the People from the Molukken Islands, Former Dutch Colonies. This Camp Holds about 100 Families, Placed in the Woods in Friesland, Holland
In a Camp for the Amboneze, the People from the Molukken Islands, Former Dutch Colonies. This Camp Holds about 100 Families, Placed in the Woods in Friesland, Holland
Leonard Freed
1960
Object number: 2016.220
Ot starogo Mira, tolko papirosi Ira, Nigde kak v Mosselprom [Design for Ira Cigarettes: "Nowhere like Mosselprom"
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Object number: 2014.226
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51. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.051
53. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
53. An eroding clearcut, Pacific County, Washington. Erosion is an inevitable consequence of clearcutting. No people in history have clearcut without damaging the soil. If one turns a globe—China, India, the Near East, Europe, the eastern seaboard reminded that some degree of long-term deforestation has been the rule with clearcutting, and that this in turn has resulted in the diminishment of whole societies. Significantly, China has recently “stopped clearcutting native forests” and has “subsidized retraining of hundreds of thousands of loggers.” (The Oregonian, January 25, 2004) From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.053