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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)
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)
ClassificationsCivil Rights Movement
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.2
Terms
  • History
  • Civil Rights
  • African-American Theme
  • Black
  • White
  • Documentary
  • Cairo, Illinois
On View
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.

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
Danny Lyon
1962, 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.
Nashville, Tennessee, 1962. Sit In: Lester MacKinney, Bernice Reagon, and John O'Neal
Danny Lyon
1962, 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. Crowds Wait Along the Funeral Route of the Girls Murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
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
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2020.
SNCC field secretary, later SNCC chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration
Danny Lyon
1962
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danville, Virginia
Danny Lyon
1963
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Leesburg, Georgia, 1963. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside
Danny Lyon
August 1963, printed 1999
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.
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.
Albany, Georgia
Danny Lyon
1962
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