Ernest C. Withers
Dr. Martin Luther King is Confronted. Dr. King is stopped by police at Medgar Ever's Funeral. Jackson, Mississippi.

Dr. Martin Luther King is Confronted. Dr. King is stopped by police at Medgar Ever's Funeral. Jackson, Mississippi.

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Dr. Martin Luther King is Confronted. Dr. King is stopped by police at Medgar Ever's Funeral. Jackson, Mississippi.
Dr. Martin Luther King is Confronted. Dr. King is stopped by police at Medgar Ever's Funeral. Jackson, Mississippi.
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Dr. Martin Luther King is Confronted. Dr. King is stopped by police at Medgar Ever's Funeral. Jackson, Mississippi.
  • from the portfolio: I Am A Man, Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, Panoptican Press, 1994
DateJune 1963, printed 1994
Place depictedJackson, Mississippi, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 × 18 13/16 in. (37.8 × 47.8 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 number98.225.6
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 #60".
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right.

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