Ernest C. Withers
Little Rock Nine. The "Little Rock Nine's" first day of school. Little Rock, Arkansas.

Little Rock Nine. The "Little Rock Nine's" first day of school. Little Rock, Arkansas.

© Withers Family Trust

Little Rock Nine. The "Little Rock Nine's" first day of school. Little Rock, Arkansas.
Little Rock Nine. The "Little Rock Nine's" first day of school. Little Rock, Arkansas.
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Little Rock Nine. The "Little Rock Nine's" first day of school. Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • from the portfolio: I AM A Man, Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, Panoptican Press, 1994
Date1957, printed 1994
Place depictedLittle Rock, Arkansas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 × 18 1/8 in. (37.8 × 46 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. (40.3 × 50.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the African American Art Advisory Association
Object number98.225.5
Not on view

Explore Further

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 #5".
The photograph is signed in pencil, verso, lower right.

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee
Ernest C. Withers
March 28, 1968, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print
98.225.1
Junienne Briscoe of the Memphis NAACP Protests on Main Street
Ernest C. Withers
1960, printed later
Gelatin silver print
2008.641
Little Rock, Arkansas
Tseng Kwong Chi
1979, printed 1983
Gelatin silver print
95.106
At Home in Little Rock
Richard Doherty
1991
Gelatin silver print
93.289