Martin Luther King Funeral Procession; 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 15 15/16 in. (50.5 x 40.5 cm)
image: 14 7/8 x 14 15/16 in. (37.8 x 37.9 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

2003.46H

Not on View

DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.

Label Text“If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell him not to talk too long…. I’d like somebody to mention that day that ‘Martin Luther King Jr. tried to give his life serving others.’” --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 4, 1968, DetroitPublished 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.