Marchers On Main Street: Marchers on Main Street in Memphis after the Assassination of Dr. King, Memphis, Tennessee, 1968, from the portfolio I am a Man
Artist/Maker
Ernest C. Withers
(American, 1922–2007)
Date1968
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 5/8 × 14 15/16 in. (37.1 × 37.9 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 16 in. (50.3 × 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 16 in. (50.3 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineOberlin Friends of Art Fund
Edition18/35
PortfolioI am a Man
Object number2004.6.9
Status
Not on viewA Black photojournalist, Withers documented the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 60s, forging close relationships with Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and James Meredith. His visual records of the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and King’s assassination – a march in the aftermath of which is seen here – were often the first, and sometimes the only, photographs to document such seminal events as they unfolded.
Exhibition History
Beyond the Barricade
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 16, 2022 - December 23, 2022 )
Collections
- Modern & Contemporary
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