Clifford Vaughs

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.[1][2]

Clifford A. "Sonny" Vaughs (April 16, 1937 – July 2, 2016) 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 producer on the film.[3] He also produced and directed the documentary What Will the Harvest Be? (1965) and Not So Easy (1972).[4]

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  3. ^ Choppers Magazine #8, Roth (ed), 1967
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