Untitled
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 16 in. (50.5 x 40.6 cm)
image: 14 7/8 x 14 15/16 in. (37.8 x 37.9 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: 2003.46J
Label Text:
Ernest C. Withers
American, 1922–2007
“Untitled”
Bishop Frederick Jordan, AME Baptist church, T.O. Jones, Head of Sanitation workers, Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers, lead commemorative march, Memphis, Tennessee, April 8, 1968
“We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop….And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.”
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at a speech in support of the striking sanitation workers in Memphis, on April 3, 1968, the day before his assassination.
Ernest C. Withers
American, 1922–2007
“Untitled”
Bishop Frederick Jordan, AME Baptist church, T.O. Jones, Head of Sanitation workers, Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers, lead commemorative march, Memphis, Tennessee, April 8, 1968
“We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop….And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.”
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at a speech in support of the striking sanitation workers in Memphis, on April 3, 1968, the day before his assassination.
DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.
Not on view