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Exhibitions: Incomplete History Photography

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Artist: Ernest C. Withers (Memphis, Tennessee, August 7, 1922 - October 15, 2007, Memphis, Tennessee)
Title: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy on First Desegregated Bus Ride.  Montgomery, Alabama, December 21, 1956
Date: 1956
Medium: gelatin silver print
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Harvey and Sondra Burg, 2010.71
Location: On view in the Museum Learning Center

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Exhibitions: Incomplete History Photography
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Images and the Media
Periods and Styles: Civil Rights Movement
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Race and Otherness

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Respect Existence or Expect Resistance: Civil Rights Era Photographs from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/10/2017 - 7/30/2017
An Incomplete History of Photography: 1860s to 1960s, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 2/21/2021

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