Danny Lyon 1963 The Leesburg, Georgia Stockade. Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside near Leesburg. [Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement]
Etherton Gallery The Leesburg, Georgia Stockade. Arrested for demonstrating in Americus, teenage girls are kept in a stockade in the countryside near Leesburg. They have no beds and no working sanitary facilities. Lyon made pictures through the broken glass of the barred windows.
This photograph was included in the exhibition "Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" (Etherton Gallery, February 4 - March 15, 2014)
