First day of Memphis integration, TN
- Created by
- Dr. Withers, Ernest C., American, 1922 - 2007
- Subject of
- Fombi, Menelik Chiremba, American, born 1955
- Williams, Harry, American
- Kyles, Dwania, American
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- 1961
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
- H x W (Image): 14 1/4 × 18 in. (36.2 × 45.7 cm)
- Caption
- These students, Michael Willis (now Menelik Fombi), Harry Williams, and Dwania Kyles, were three of the "Memphis 13," the group of thirteen first-graders who integrated four Memphis elementary schools on October 3, 1961. Willis, Williams and Kyles are pictured here on their way to Bruce Elementary School.
- Description
- Three children, Michael Willis (now Menelik Fombi), Harry Williams, and Dwania Kyles, smile from a car window on their way to school as a woman, left, looks on.
- Place depicted
- Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2009.16.18
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Ernest C. Withers Trust
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