This picture of teenaged girls who were arrested for demonstrating in Georgia was taken by Danny Lyon. Lyon was the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a national group of college students who joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions capturing telling moments like this. This photograph is part of a limited edition portfolio that Lyon produced to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the civil rights struggle.
"Leesburg, Georgia. Arrested for demonstrating
in Americus, teenage girls. . .," no. 10
Photographs are from:
Memories of the Southern
Civil Rights Movement
portfolio, 1994
Gelatin silver prints
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Emory E. Clark, 1996
(84.1 a,b)