Ernest C. Withers
First Desegregated Bus Ride. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegrated bus. Montgomery, Alabama.

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

CultureAmerican

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First Desegregated Bus Ride. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegrated bus. Montgomery, Alabama.
from the portfolio: I Am A Man, Photographs by Ernest C. Withers, Panoptican Press, 1994

DateDecember 1956, printed 1994

Place depictedMontgomery, Alabama, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 14 7/8 × 17 15/16 in. (37.8 × 45.6 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 number98.225.2

Not on view

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Photography

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Photographs by African American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Panopticon Gallery, Rockland, Massachusetts]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition History"African-American Advisory Association (Five-A)" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 2 to April 7, 2003.

"African-American Art in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 22, 2004 - May 9, 2004.

"Houston Collects: African American Art," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Upper Brown Pavilion, July 31-October 26, 2008.

"Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Millennium Gallery, January 24–September 25, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: The photograph is inscribed in pencil, verso, lower edge: "#9/35 I Am A Man Portfolio, Panopticon Press 1994 #62".

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

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