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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)
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)
ClassificationsCivil Rights Movement
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.18
Terms
  • History
  • Civil Rights
  • African-American Theme
  • Black
  • White
  • Documentary
  • Selma, Alabama
On View
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.

Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Atlanta, Georgia, Winter 1963/64. Arrests During Mass Demonstrations Downtown
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Leesburg, Georgia, 1963. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside
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High school student Taylor Washington is arrested at Lebs Delicatessen (his eighth arrest)
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At the Memorial March for Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis
Robert Abbott Sengstacke
April 8, 1968
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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.
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.
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. SNCC Workers Outside the Funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby
Danny Lyon
1963, printed 1999
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Supporters Assemble to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. After His Assassination
Benedict J. Fernandez
April 6, 1968
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
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SNCC field secretary, later SNCC chairman, now Congressman John Lewis, and others pray during a demonstration
Danny Lyon
1962
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