Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too (William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main Street, Memphis, August, 1961); from the portfolio I Am A Man

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Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too (William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main Street, Memphis, August, 1961); from the portfolio I Am A Man

Artist Ernest C. Withers American, 1922 - 2007

Publisher Panopticon Press, Tony Decaneas, Waltham, MA

Datephotographs: 1956-1968; portfolio: 1994

Dimensionssheet: 19 7/8 x 16 in. (50.5 x 40.6 cm)
image: 14 7/8 x 15 in. (37.8 x 38.1 cm)
Sheet, according to WAC form: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

MediumGelatin silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund

Object number

2003.46C

Not on View

Published Referencescf.: Pictures Tell a Story (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2000) cf.: Let Us March On! Selected Civil Rights photographs of Ernest C. Withers, 1955-1968 (Boston: Massachusetts College of Art, 1992)Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, People Get Ready: 50 Years of Civil Rights, June 27-September 21, 2014.

Label TextIn this photograph taken during an unidentified protest in Memphis, Ernest Withers perfectly distills the hopes and tensions of the Civil Rights movement.