This week's Culture Desk explores a 1958 photograph from the Brooks Museum's permanent collection.
Taken by renowned Memphis photojournalist Ernest Withers, it captures just one of the many small but collectively important moments in the struggle for civil rights. Museum curator Marina Pacini reveals the photo's history, but also its surprising provenance.
About this historic photo:
Ernest C Withers
American, 1922-2007
It's All Over but the Decision; published in Memphis World, January 15, 1958
Gelatin silver print
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase; funds provided by Sara and Kevin Adams, Deupree Family Foundation, Henry and Lynne Turley, Kaywin Feldman and Jim Lutz, and Marina Pacini and David McCarthy, 2006.31.49
Copyright Estate of the artist
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