Ernest C. Withers
Courthouse. Civil Rights lawyers Odell Horton, A.W. Willis, Benjamin Hooks, Russell Sugarmon and J.F. Estes at Memphis Police Court. Memphis, Tennessee.

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Courthouse. Civil Rights lawyers Odell Horton, A.W. Willis, Benjamin Hooks, Russell Sugarmon and J.F. Estes at Memphis Police Court. Memphis, Tennessee.
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CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Courthouse. Civil Rights lawyers Odell Horton, A.W. Willis, Benjamin Hooks, Russell Sugarmon and J.F. Estes at Memphis Police Court. Memphis, Tennessee.
  • from the portfolio: I Am A Man, Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, Panoptican Press, 1994
Date1960, printed 1994
Place depictedMemphis, Tennessee, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 × 18 1/16 in. (37.8 × 45.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.5 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the African American Art Advisory Association
Object number98.225.7
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Panopticon Gallery, Rockland, Massachusetts]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "African-American Advisory Association (Five-A)" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 2 to April 7, 2003.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: The photograph is inscribed in pencil, verso, lower edge: "#9/35 I Am A Man Portfolio, Panopticon Press, 1994 #13".
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right.

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