This black-and-white photograph captures demonstrators marching down Main Street in Memphis holding placards that read, "Honor King: End Racism" and "Union Justice Now." The sign for Florsheim Shoes appears at top left.

Marchers on Main Street: Marchers on Main Street in Memphis after the assassination of Dr. King. Memphis, Tennessee, 1968

Ernest C. Withers, Published by Panopticon Press, Boston

1968; printed 1994

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Sketchy picture of torso and head of male on verso.
This image is created with black ink on paper. It represents a large building on a hill, overlooking a cityscape (downtown Birmingham, Alabama). In the foreground, two nuns wearing large habits walk on a wooded circular drive in front of the building.
Rainbow Cove, Frank Weston Benson, etching
Untitled, Seymour Lipton, oil crayon on paper