Ernest C. Withers
Bishop Frederick Jordan, AME Baptist Church, T.O. Jones, Head of Sanitation Workers, Walter Ruether, United Auto Workers, lead commemorative march. Memphis, Tennessee.

Bishop Frederick Jordan, AME Baptist Church, T.O. Jones, Head of Sanitation Workers, Walter Ruether, United Auto Workers, lead commemorative march. Memphis, Tennessee.

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Artist Ernest C. Withers (American, 1922–2007)American, 1922–2007

CultureAmerican

Titles

Bishop Frederick Jordan, AME Baptist Church, T.O. Jones, Head of Sanitation Workers, Walter Ruether, United Auto Workers, lead commemorative march. Memphis, Tennessee.
from the portfolio: I Am A Man, Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, Panoptican Press, 1994

DateApril 8, 1968, printed 1994

Place depictedMemphis, Tennessee, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 14 7/8 in. (37.5 × 37.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 15 15/16 in. (50.2 × 40.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the African American Art Advisory Association

Object number98.225.10

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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 #100".

The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right.

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