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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Demonstrators at the "All White" Swimming Pool
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.

Demonstrators at the "All White" Swimming Pool

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1962
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 number2000.14.2
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. On the right, a line of African Americans stand at the door of a "private pool members only" sign held by four white men.

ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"Civil Rights Photography," Newseum, Arlington, Virginia, January 8 - April 30, 2001. Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 25.
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
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
1963-1964, printed 1999
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
Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC photographer is arrested
1964
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. Crowds Wait Along the Funeral Route of the Girls Murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Ruleville, Mississippi, 1964. Gwen Gillon, a SNCC Staff Member from Alabama, Conducts a Literacy Class During Freedom Summer
1964, printed 1999
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2020.
Danny Lyon
SNCC field secretary, later SNCC chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration
1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Danville, Virginia
1963
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
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. SNCC Workers Outside the Funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby
1963, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
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
1964, printed 1999
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
Albany, Georgia
1962
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