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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
High school student Taylor Washington is arrested at Lebs Delicatessen (his eighth arrest)
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.

High school student Taylor Washington is arrested at Lebs Delicatessen (his eighth arrest)

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
DateWinter, 1963-64
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Overall, Support: 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 number2000.14.24
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. A white man wearing a white helmut holds a young African American man by his neck, while he attempts to get free. Onlookers in the street stay distanced from the struggle.

ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 128.
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested
1964
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Nashville, Tennessee, 1962. Sit In: Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal
1962, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Dottie Miller, who lost her shoes to high-pressure fire hoses after being clubbed, gives an affidavit to James Forman
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two young men demonstrating for voter registration on the steps of the Federal Building
1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Atlanta, Georgia, Winter 1963/64. Arrests During Mass Demonstrations Downtown
1963-1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Cairo, Illinois, 1962. The Public Swimming Pool Has Been Changed into a "Private Pool" in Order to Remain Segregated
1962, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Leesburg, Georgia, 1963. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside
August 1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Eddie Brown, former gang leader and movement activist is arrested
1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
A Toddle House in Atlanta Has the Distinction of Being Occupied during a Sit In by Some of America's Most Effective Organizers. In the Room Are Taylor Washington, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Joyce Ladner, John Lewis behind Judy Richardson, George Green, and Chico Neblett
1963-1964, printed 1999
Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Ernest C. Withers
Desegregation of Central High School by “Little Rock Nine,” Arkansas
1957, printed 1996
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Danny Lyon
Southwest Georgia, 1963. SNCC Field Secretary Charles Sherrod and Randy Battle Visit a Supporter in the Countryside
1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
The March on Washington
August 28, 1963
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