Ernest C. Withers
Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too. William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, Tennessee.

Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too. William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, Tennessee.

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Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too. William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, Tennessee.
Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too. William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, Tennessee.
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too. William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, Tennessee.
  • from the portfolio: I AM A Man, Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, Panoptican Press, 1994
DateAugust 1961, printed 1994
Place depictedMemphis, Tennessee, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 14 7/8 in. (36.8 × 37.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 15 7/8 in. (50.2 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the African American Art Advisory Association
Object number98.225.3
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 #9".
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right.

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