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

DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.

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