Marchers On Main Street: 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: 19 7/8 x 15 15/16 in. (50.5 x 40.5 cm)
image: 14 5/8 x 14 7/8 in. (37.1 x 37.8 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: 2003.46I
Label Text:A silent march of 20,000 through Memphis the day before Martin Luther King’s funeral was led by King’s wife Coretta Scott King and three of their children. In 110 cities across the country, riots broke out in the days following the assassination. Tensions ran high in Memphis, too—the National Guard, armed with rifles and tanks, lined the streets during the march while helicopters circled overhead.
DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.
Not on view