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

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 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.