Leesburg, Georgia. Arrested for Demonstrating in Americus, Teenage Girls Are Kept in a Stockade in the Countryside

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of a group of teenage girls in a room with bars on the windows.

Catalog date

1963; printed 1994

Recorded places

Leesburg, Lee County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Civil Rights; Photography; U.S. History, 1961-1969

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