The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 23, 2025
A year after the Freedom Rides, segregation signs still stand outside the Jackson, Mississippi bus terminal
1962, printed later
(American, b. 1942)
Image: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
A self-taught photographer, Danny Lyon went to the American South while still in college to work for the movement and document the injustices he saw.Description
Freedom Rides were trips taken by black and white activists who traveled by bus throughout the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals and “whites only” restrooms, waiting rooms, and lunch counters. Note that all the figures in the military recruitment posters are white people.- {{cite web|title=A year after the Freedom Rides, segregation signs still stand outside the Jackson, Mississippi bus terminal|url=false|author=Danny Lyon|year=1962, printed later|access-date=23 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.82