The black-and-white photograph shows a black man pushing a stroller and carrying a sign that reads, "Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too." The man looks back toward Memphis policemen who look on from their car.

Daddy, I Want To Be Free Too: William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones during protest march on Main St., Memphis, August, 1961

Ernest C. Withers, Published by Panopticon Press, Boston

1961; printed 1994

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