Title from caption on object: “The Reverend F. L. Shuttlesworth Leaves a Baptist Church...”

September 9, 1957

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.1 × 21.3 cm (5 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 17.8 × 23 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.443

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom printed in image: BXP090902--9/9/57--BIRMINGHAM, ALA., The Rev. F. L. Shuttlesworth [underlined in blue ink] / leaves a Baptist Church where a Negro meeting was held after xxx / he lead [sic] an integration attempt on Birmingham’s second largest high / school. UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO; on verso, upper left stamped in red ink: REFERENCE / SEP 26 '57 / N.E.A.; center right United Press copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite inverted: A89399

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