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Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Firemen Trying to Dislodge Demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Firemen Trying to Dislodge Demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963

Artist Charles Moore (American, 1931-2010)
Date1963
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 3/8 × 9 3/4 in. (16.2 × 24.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 12 9/16 × 14 1/4 in. (31.9 × 36.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsCivil Rights Movement
Credit LinePurchase, Gift of Renée and Paul Mansheim and in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and the Art Purchase Fund
Object number97.28
Terms
  • Civil Rights
  • Birmingham, AL
  • Firemen
  • Black
  • White
  • Birmingham, Alabama
On View
Not on view
DescriptionFiremen trying to break up demonstrators with a fire hose along a sidewalk.

Label TextCharles Moore American, 1931–2010 Firemen Trying to Dislodge Demonstrators, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963, 1963 Gelatin silver print (photograph) Museum purchase, gift of Renée and Paul Mansheim and in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and the Art Purchase Fund 97.28
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Danny Lyon
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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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1962
Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Charles Moore
1963
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Charmian Sproule Reading
1966
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964. Fannie Lou Hamer, Sharecropper from a Family of Twenty, Evicted for Trying to Register, Beaten in the Winona Jail, SNCC Field Secretary from Ruleville, and Future Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Candidate for Congress
Danny Lyon
1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Danny Lyon
August 1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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