This black-and-white photograph features a portrait of a black family evicted from their home. The father (at left) and the mother (at right) stand before a tent with four children. The mother also cradles an infant in her arms.

Tent City Family: This family was evicted from their home for voting. Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960

Ernest C. Withers, Published by Panopticon Press, Boston

1960; printed 1994

See More of the Collection

Cordoba, Lucille Douglass, charcoal and pastel on paper
Horizontal logs and planks in foreground; five men working on skeletal hull of ship in middle ground; white buildings with green shutters in background. Green foliage in upper left corner; blue sky with white clouds in upper right corner.
Crescent (Nude), Warren Davis, etching
St. John's in the Village, Lucy Jane Salter, woodcut