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

Nashville, Tennessee, 1962. Sit In: Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal

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

Object number2000.14.9

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. Underneath the "HAMBURGERS 10¢" neon sign, there are four African Americans, faced with what look to be a policeman (with a white helmut) and another white man.

Label TextDanny Lyon American, b. 1942 Nashville, Tennessee, 1962. Sit In: Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal, November 1962 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1999 When the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee met in Nashville, Tennessee for its 1962 annual conference, local black students joined the SNCC volunteers to protest segregation in downtown businesses. Among those denied entrance here to the Tic Toc, a popular hamburger restaurant, is SNCC field secretary Bernice Reagon (b. 1942). Reagon was also a founding member in 1962 of the Freedom Singers, an ensemble who wrote and performed African American spirituals to mobilize demonstrators and to express the goals of the Civil Rights Movement through music. Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2000.14.9 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), 50.