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

Leesburg, Georgia, 1963. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

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

CultureAmerican

DateAugust 1963, printed 1999

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Overall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)

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

Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number2000.14.11

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. Fifteen or so young African American women are in a cinder block room with bars on the windows and doors. Most of the young women face the viewer.

Label TextDanny Lyon American, b. 1942 Leesburg, Georgia, 1963. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside, August 1963 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1999 Danny Lyon, a staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, aimed his camera through the barred window of a pen in rural Georgia to photograph a group of teenage girls who had been arrested for protesting and detained without charges for days. One prisoner, Henrietta Fuller, later described this inhuman treatment in an affidavit: I am 13 years old and was in Leesburg stockade from August 31 to September 8. There were 32 kids in there with me. There were no beds, no mattresses, no blankets, pillows, no sheets. The floor was cold… There was a shower but it wasn’t clean enough for you to bathe in… At night the mosquitos and roaches were at us. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2000.14.11 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), 78-79.