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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 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

2003.46J

Not on View

DescriptionPortfolio with letterpress text and ten gelatin silver prints.

Label Text“We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop….And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.” --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at a speech in support of the striking sanitation workers in Memphis, on April 3, 1968, the day before his assassination.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.