First Desegregated Bus Ride; from the portfolio I Am A Man
Artist: Ernest C. Withers (American, 1922 - 2007)
Publisher: Panopticon Press, Tony Decaneas, Waltham, MA
Date: photographs: 1956-1968; portfolio: 1994
Dimensions:
sheet: 16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.6 x 50.5 cm)
image: 14 15/16 x 18 1/16 in. (37.9 x 45.9 cm)
Sheet, according to WAC form: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Mrs. George W. Stevens Fund
Object number: 2003.46B
Label Text:Ernest C. Withers
American, 1922–2007
“First Desegregated Bus Ride”
Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegregated bus, Montgomery, Alabama, December 1956
“We had won self-respect…. We felt that we were somebody, that somebody had to listen to us, that we had forced the white man to give what we knew was part of our citizenship…. [I]t is a hilarious feeling that just goes all over you, that makes you feel that America is a great country and we’re trying to do more to make it greater.”
--Jo Ann Robinson, one of the organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, on the 1956 Supreme Court decision desegregating buses
American, 1922–2007
“First Desegregated Bus Ride”
Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegregated bus, Montgomery, Alabama, December 1956
“We had won self-respect…. We felt that we were somebody, that somebody had to listen to us, that we had forced the white man to give what we knew was part of our citizenship…. [I]t is a hilarious feeling that just goes all over you, that makes you feel that America is a great country and we’re trying to do more to make it greater.”
--Jo Ann Robinson, one of the organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, on the 1956 Supreme Court decision desegregating buses
DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.
Not on view