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Danny Lyon 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 no working sanitary facilities. I make pictures through the broken glass of the barred windows (1962–1964 (printed 2015))

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Artist
Danny Lyon
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 no working sanitary facilities. I make pictures through the broken glass of the barred windows
Date
1962–1964 (printed 2015)
Tags
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number
2017.16.53
Credit Line
Gift of Charles (A.B.’84) and Linda Googe

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