Sentences with phrase «american sanitation workers»

A reinterpretation of the actual signs that were carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, and which were made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march, this small, roughly made painting combines layers of history, meaning, and physical material in a dense, resonant object.

Untitled (I Am a Man) is a reinterpretation of the signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 and made famous in Ernest Withers» photographs of the march.

Published during a moment of political upheaval and dissent against resurgent fascism in the United States, Bordowitz's book inserts Untitled (I Am a Man) into a history that includes the African - American sanitation workers» strike in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968, Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech «Ain't I A Woman?»

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Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007, In Front of Clayborn Temple, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, March 28, 1968, Gelatin silver print, printed from original negative in 1999, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase with funds provided by Ernest and Dorothy Withers, Panopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, MA, Landon and Carol Butler, The Deupree Family Foundation, and The Turley Foundation 2005.3.32 © Withers Family Trust