Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2020.

Picketing the Courthouse, Monroe, North Carolina

Artist Declan Haun (American, 1937-1994)

CultureAmerican

Date1961

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 1/2 × 6 5/16 in. (24.1 × 16 cm)
Overall: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 15/16 × 15 15/16 in. (50.6 × 40.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase, gift of Patricia L. Raymond, M.D., and in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number97.20

Not on view

DescriptionThis gelatin silver print depicts a young female carrying a "Justice" sign.

Label TextDeclan Haun American, 1937−1994 Picketing the Courthouse, Monroe, North Carolina, August 26, 1961 Gelatin silver print (photograph) In North Carolina and other Southern states, minorities have long fought for legal protection against discrimination. Here Genora Covington, 16 years old, stands outside the Union County Courthouse in Monroe, N.C., to protest racial segregation at public swimming pools. She complies with new local ordinances designed to intimidate demonstrators, which required signs to be no wider than 24 inches and forced picketers to stand 15 feet apart in a single-file line in groups of no more than 10. This distance made the protestors more vulnerable, and a white mob attacked them later that day. Freelance photographer Declan Haun took this image for the Charlotte Observer. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and with funds provided by Patricia L. Raymond, M.D. 97.20 ProvenancePurchased from Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY, by Chrysler Museum of Art, June 1997.Exhibition History"Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement from the Museum Collection," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, February 6 - May 31, 1998. "Civil Rights Photography," Newseum, Arlington, Virginia, January 8 - April 30, 2001. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 25, 2010 - September 11, 2011. "Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.Published ReferencesSteven Kasher, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY, 1954-68, (New York: Abeville Press Publishers, 1996), 77.