Tent City Family; from the portfolio, I Am A Man

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Tent City Family; 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, 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

2003.46D

Not on View

DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.

Label Text"There were four tents and four families in our tent city…. It was so cold when we moved in…. I gave birth to one of my children that night and the dog outside froze to death. We had an old wood-burning stove in the tent and we wrapped up real good. We were there a year before we moved out.” --Etta Mason, 2000, Moscow, Tennessee Etta Mason is not the woman featured in this photograph, but another of the hundreds of African American sharecroppers evicted from their homes the winter of 1960 for registering to vote in Fayette and Haywood Counties, Tennessee.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.