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

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

Artist/Vendor Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

CultureAmerican

Date1964, printed 1999

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 LinePurchase, gift of Patricia L. Raymond

Object number2000.14.26

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. This is an image of African American men and women picketting in the rain. A young boy is in the foreground; two people hold umbrellas.

Label TextDanny Lyon American, b. 1942 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, January 22, 1964 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1999 After registering to vote, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917−1977), a sharecropper on a Mississippi cotton farm, was fired, evicted, arrested, beaten, and transformed into a powerful spokeswoman for equal rights. In August, 1964 she told her story at the Democratic National Convention in a speech televised nationwide. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave,” she asked, “where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and with funds provided by Patricia L. Raymond, M.D. 2000.14.26 ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Exhibition History"Civil Rights Photography," Newseum, Arlington, Virginia, January 8 - April 30, 2001. "Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016. Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 133.