Title from caption on object: “The Racial Crisis”
May 3, 1963
Artist, American, 1932 - 2010
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 16.8 × 21.4 cm (6 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
sheet: 18 × 23 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.450
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching center left in orange crayon; on verso, by unknown hand, center left in blue ink perpendicular: Racial [crossed out] / Racial Dem.; center left stamped in green ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: JAN 2 1964; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Best News Pic / [reproduction of image] / THE RACIAL CRISIS / --Associated Press Wirephoto / Police dogs, pacifistic resistance, and / prejudice burst upon the American con- / science in 1963 as the long-smoldering / racial crisis came to a head in Birming- / ham, Oxford, Miss., Chicago, Philadel- / phia and other cities--North and South. / Civil Rights made its biggest leap in / 1963, across police barricades, legisla- / tive agendas, and court dockets. This / youth, being attacked by a police dog, / symbolized the Negro's new militancy.; by unknown hand, center illegible notes in blue ink on applied newspaper; lower left stamped in black ink perpendicular: DATE USED / AUG 22 1969