I Am A Man: Photographs by Ernest C. Withers

Ernest C. Withers created key historical photographs as he was often the first, or only, photographer to capture significant moments during the Civil Rights Movement as they unfolded. On view will be photographs from the portfolio I Am A Man, from the museum’s permanent collection, named after a photograph Withers shot during the Sanitation Workers strike in Memphis in 1968. The photographs in the exhibition include such momentous events as the first day the buses were desegregated in Montgomery, Alabama and when the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas were desegregated.