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Preview image of work. gelatin silver print on paper, Arrested For Demonstrating In Americus, Georgia, Teenage Girls Are Kept In A Stockade In The Countryside Near Leesburg. Some Had Been In The Stockade For A Few Days, Others Had Been There For Three Weeks. They Have No Beds And...... 37800

2018.28.17

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Artist

Danny Lyon (Brooklyn, New York, 3/16/1942 - )

Title

Arrested For Demonstrating In Americus, Georgia, Teenage Girls Are Kept In A Stockade In The Countryside Near Leesburg. Some Had Been In The Stockade For A Few Days, Others Had Been There For Three Weeks. They Have No Beds And......

Creation Date

1963 (printed later)

Century

mid-late 20th century

Dimensions

11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

Credit Line

Gift of Drs. Steven and Linda Lee

Copyright

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Accession Number

2018.28.17

Black women have long been on the front lines of activism. Documentary photographer Danny Lyon sought to capture their efforts during his time as staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) beginning in 1962. Traveling through Georgia in 1963, he took a series of photographs picturing 32 young girls, ages 12 to 15, arrested for demonstrating in Americus, Georgia. Recalling the events of her nine-day imprisonment, one young girl, Henrietta Fuller, described the harsh conditions of the living conditions in a written statement: “There were no beds, no mattresses, no blankets, pillows, no sheets. The floor was cold…The water was hot and it was running all the while. The man gave us three cups for the 32 of us.”