Courthouse; from the portfolio, I Am A Man

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Courthouse; 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: 15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.5 x 50.5 cm)
image: 14 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (37.8 x 45.4 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

2003.46G

Not on View

DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.

Label TextWhen four African American college students sat down at a “whites only” lunch counter at the F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina in March 1960, they began one of the first sustained sit-in demonstrations against segregation. Their actions ignited a string of youth-led sit-ins throughout the South, including one at the Memphis Public Library that same month. Forty-one demonstrators at that protest were arrested. Ernest Withers took this photo of the legal staff of the Memphis branch of the NAACP at the protestors’ arraignment.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.