Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Dottie Miller, who lost her shoes to high-pressure fire hoses after being clubbed, gives an affidavit to James Forman

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

CultureAmerican

Date1963, printed 1999

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 13 1/4 × 9 1/16 in. (33.7 × 23 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 15 15/16 in. (50.8 × 40.5 cm)

InscribedDate, print number, and a credit to Chuck Kelton (who made the print) appears on the verso of the print.

Credit LinePurchase, gift of Patricia L. Raymond

Object number2000.14.31

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. A woman sits on a couch, shoeless; a man signs papers in the chair besdie the couch.

Label TextDanny Lyon American, b. 1942 Dottie Miller, Who Lost Her Shoes to High Pressure Fire Hoses After Being Clubbed, Gives an Affidavit to James Forman, June 10, 1963 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1999 Many young white women were behind-the-scenes leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. New Yorker Dorothy Miller (b. 1938) moved South in 1960 to volunteer with the Congress for Racial Equality, and she later helped run the communications department of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. On June 10, 1963, she joined the front lines of a prayer protest at the Danville, Virginia city hall, where she and 47 other SNCC activists were assaulted by police with clubs and fire hoses. Undaunted by her injuries, Miller returned to the city hall steps a few days later in another round of protests. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and with funds provided by Patricia L. Raymond, M.D. 2000.14.31 ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016.Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 64.