New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

First Desegregated Bus Ride, Montgomery, Alabama, December 1956

Artist Ernest C. Withers (American, 1922-2007)

CultureAmerican

Date1956

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 14 7/8 × 18 in. (37.8 × 45.7 cm)
Overall: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 22 1/8 × 26 1/8 in. (56.2 × 66.4 cm)

Inscribedsigned and titled in pencil with edition number on print verso.

Credit LinePurchase in Memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and the Art Purchase Fund

Object number97.21.2

On View

Not on view

DescriptionDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegrated bus.

Label TextErnest C. Withers American, 1922–2007 First Desegregated Bus Ride, Montgomery, Alabama, December 1956, 1956 Gelatin silver print (photograph) Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and the Art Purchase Fund 97.21.2 Exhibition History"Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, from the Museum Collection," The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., February 6 - May 31, 1998. "Civil Rights Photography," Newseum, Arlington, Va., January 8 - April 30, 2001. "History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, Fall, 2001. "Photography Speaks," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, September 4, 2004 - January 2, 2005. "Photographic Histories," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - August 17, 2014.Published ReferencesJeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 116, fig. 140. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1