Courthouse; 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: 15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.5 x 50.5 cm)
image: 14 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (37.8 x 45.4 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: 2003.46G
Label Text:“Courthouse”
Civil rights lawyers Odell Horton, A.W. Willis, Benjamin Hooks, Russell Sugarman, and J.F. Estes at Memphis Police Court, Memphis, 1960
When four African American college students sat down at a “whites only” lunch counter at the F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina in March 1960, they began one of the first sustained sit-in demonstrations against segregation. Their actions ignited a string of youth-led sit-ins throughout the South, including one at the Memphis Public Library that same month. Forty-one demonstrators at that protest were arrested. Ernest Withers took this photo of the legal staff of the Memphis branch of the NAACP at the protestors’ arraignment.
Ernest C. Withers
American, 1922–2007
Civil rights lawyers Odell Horton, A.W. Willis, Benjamin Hooks, Russell Sugarman, and J.F. Estes at Memphis Police Court, Memphis, 1960
When four African American college students sat down at a “whites only” lunch counter at the F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina in March 1960, they began one of the first sustained sit-in demonstrations against segregation. Their actions ignited a string of youth-led sit-ins throughout the South, including one at the Memphis Public Library that same month. Forty-one demonstrators at that protest were arrested. Ernest Withers took this photo of the legal staff of the Memphis branch of the NAACP at the protestors’ arraignment.
Ernest C. Withers
American, 1922–2007
DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.
Not on view