Tent City Family; 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, 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: 2003.46D
Label Text:Ernest C. Withers
American, 1922–2007
“Tent City Family”
This family was evicted from their home for voting, Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960
"There were four tents and four families in our tent city…. It was so cold when we moved in…. I gave birth to one of my children that night and the dog outside froze to death. We had an old wood-burning stove in the tent and we wrapped up real good. We were there a year before we moved out.”
--Etta Mason, 2000, Moscow, Tennessee
Etta Mason is not the woman featured in this photograph, but another of the hundreds of African American sharecroppers evicted from their homes the winter of 1960 for registering to vote in Fayette and Haywood Counties, Tennessee.
American, 1922–2007
“Tent City Family”
This family was evicted from their home for voting, Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960
"There were four tents and four families in our tent city…. It was so cold when we moved in…. I gave birth to one of my children that night and the dog outside froze to death. We had an old wood-burning stove in the tent and we wrapped up real good. We were there a year before we moved out.”
--Etta Mason, 2000, Moscow, Tennessee
Etta Mason is not the woman featured in this photograph, but another of the hundreds of African American sharecroppers evicted from their homes the winter of 1960 for registering to vote in Fayette and Haywood Counties, Tennessee.
DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.
Not on view