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Museum object · gelatin silver prints

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

1963; printed 1994

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

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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

Sources & collection details

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20

Catalog reference: 2012.107.21

Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

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