Uncle Hiram

Kathryn Tucker Windham

1937

  • Titles Uncle Hiram (Proper)@Uncle Hiram Davis (Proper)
  • Artist Kathryn Tucker Windham, American, 1918 - 2011
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (35.2 × 27.6 cm) image: 11 3/8 × 6 3/8 in. (28.9 × 16.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase in loving memory of Jeannine O'Grody with funds provided by her family and friends, 2019.10, image © Kathryn Tucker Windham
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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This color photograph represents train tracks at a small train station. The foreground shows a gray platform, beyond which is a signal and an old woman with gray hair walking in a black dress and red cardigan. To her left is grass and to her right are tracks without a train. Beyond those tracks is a platform with posts, bushes, and a small building. Past the platform is a train pulling into the station and a row of trees.
Black and white press print of an African American woman lying in the grass struggling against four white policemen. The officer in the center holds a billy club. Includes caption "WOMAN SCUFFLES WITH SHERIFF - A Negro woman fights back as / Sheriff Jim Clark (hatless), of Dallas County, Ala. tried to wrestle his / billy club from her grip in a melee on the ground outside the Selma court- / house during the civil rights drive to register Negro voters. The woman, / Annie Lee Cooper, a Selma motel clerk, was subdued by Clark and his / deputies and arrested on charges of assaulting the sheriff. --AP Wirephoto."
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Two birds are depicted perched on a thin branch that blooms with a reddish-pink flower and small red berries.The birds are covered in yellow, black, and white feathers.