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

Cairo, Illinois, 1962. The Public Swimming Pool Has Been Changed into a "Private Pool" in Order to Remain Segregated

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

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

CultureAmerican

Date1962, 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 LinePurchase, gift of Patricia L. Raymond

Object number2000.14.1

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. A line of African Americans wait with towels to get into a pool.

Label TextDanny Lyon American, b. 1942 Cairo, Illinois, 1962. The Public Swimming Pool Has Been Changed into a "Private Pool" in Order to Remain Segregated, 1962 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1999 On a hot summer day in 1962, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized a group of teenagers to demonstrate at a whites-only swimming pool in Cairo, Illinois. Twenty-year-old Danny Lyon witnessed and photographed the event, and the heroism of these demonstrators inspired him to join SNCC and devote the next several years to the Civil Rights Movement. As a SNCC staff photographer, Lyon traveled to sites of conflict and violence throughout the South to record the bravery of the activists and the trials they endured. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and with funds provided by Patricia L. Raymond, M.D. 2000.14.1 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), 25.