Clifford Vaughs
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Clifford A. "Sonny" Vaughs was an American civil rights activist, filmmaker, and motorcycle builder. Vaughs designed the two chopper motorcycles used for the 1969 film Easy Rider, while an associate p
Photograph by Danny Lyon of Clifford Vaughs arrested by the National Guard at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) protest in Cambridge, Maryland in 1964. In foreground, Stokely Carmichael pulls Vaughs' right leg from Guardsmen.
The Captain America bike
The Billy bike
Stokely Carmichael
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Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian and American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, he moved
Clifford Vaughs
…troops at a sit-in in Cambridge, Maryland, on May 2, 1964. It was during this violent period of SNCC demonstrations that Vaughs first met Lyon. Activist Stokely Carmichael appears in the foreground of the photo, pulling Vaughs' right leg from Guardsmen. Vaughs carried his customized blue Knucklehead chopper in the bed of…
Ture in 1966
Carmichael at a 1966 press conference in Mississippi