First Desegregated Bus Ride: Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegregated bus. Montgomery, Alabama, December 1956

Ernest C. Withers, Published by Panopticon Press, Boston

1956; printed 1994

  • Titles First Desegregated Bus Ride: Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegregated bus. Montgomery, Alabama, December 1956 (Proper)@I Am A Man (Portfolio)
  • Artist Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.5 x 50.5 cm) image: 14 15/16 x 18 1/16 in. (37.9 x 45.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 2006.322.2
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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