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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Waiting for James Meredith, the First African American to Register at The University of Mississippi
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Waiting for James Meredith, the First African American to Register at The University of Mississippi

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Date1962
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
Overall, Paper: 10 15/16 × 14 in. (27.8 × 35.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 1/16 × 24 in. (51 × 61 cm)
ClassificationsCivil Rights Movement
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.10
Terms
  • History
  • Civil Rights
  • Police department
  • African-American Theme
  • Black
  • White
  • Documentary
  • Oxford, Mississippi
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. The focus is on a Mississippi Highway patrolman with his arms crossed. A crowd of people are behind him.

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.
Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested
Danny Lyon
1964
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Highway Patrolmen, Outside the Site of the Bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, Where Four Young Girls Were Murdered
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Dottie Miller, who lost her shoes to high-pressure fire hoses after being clubbed, gives an affidavit to James Forman
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
The March on Washington
Danny Lyon
August 28, 1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Ruleville, Mississippi, 1964. Gwen Gillon, a SNCC Staff Member from Alabama, Conducts a Literacy Class During Freedom Summer
Danny Lyon
1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. A Year After the Freedom Rides, Segregation Signs Still Stand Outside the Bus Terminal
Danny Lyon
1962, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1963. The Local Police Force Pose for a Photograph as Ministers from The National Council of Churches March to the Local Church
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
A home in the Mississippi Delta
Danny Lyon
1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. SNCC Workers Outside the Funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Atlanta, Georgia, Winter 1963/64. An Anonymous Woman, Who has Come Upon a Mob Abusing Demonstrators with Kicks, Blows and Burning Cigarettes, Holds the Mob at Bay and Protects the Demonstrators
Danny Lyon
1963-1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Mass Meeting in Danville, Virginia
Danny Lyon
1963
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