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Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two young men demonstrating for voter registration on the steps of the Federal Building
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.

Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two young men demonstrating for voter registration on the steps of the Federal Building

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1963
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 number2000.14.18
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. A sheriff escorts a young male African American wearing a hat; another police officer behind them escorts another young African American male in a white shirt.

ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 99.
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
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
High school student Taylor Washington is arrested at Lebs Delicatessen (his eighth arrest)
Winter, 1963-64
Scanned from a slide.
Robert Abbott Sengstacke
At the Memorial March for Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis
April 8, 1968
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
Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1963. The Local Police Force Pose for a Photograph as Ministers from The National Council of Churches March to the Local Church
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
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. SNCC Workers Outside the Funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby
1963, printed 1999
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.
Benedict J. Fernandez
Supporters Assemble to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. After His Assassination
April 6, 1968
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
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