Title from caption on object: “Want Chow”

August 25, 1958

American 20th Century

Associated Names
American 20th Century

Artist

Associated Press

Publisher

The image shows a group of African American children seated at tables in a restaurant or diner setting. The photograph displays their upper bodies and focuses on about eight individuals. The child closest to the camera is seated sideways at a table and wears a short-sleeved shirt. The individual has short, closely-cropped hair and is looking directly at the camera. To the left, a girl with her back to the camera, wearing a light-colored dress and with her hair pulled into a bun with a ribbon, is seated at a table. Another girl in a striped top with short sleeves and short hair is engaged in conversation with a smiling boy in a plaid shirt. Other boys are at the tables, sitting and facing different directions, some with short haircuts. The tables are adorned with napkin dispensers and condiments. In the background, there are tan booths with a potted plant atop the partition, and young onlookers from different tables are partially visible.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 13 × 20.4 cm (5 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.447

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink: Integration; upper center in blue ink underlined and crossed out: Segregation; upper right in graphite: P.P. / [illegible] / TUES-; center in graphite circled: #5; center in graphite circled, crossed out, and partially visible: 5; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: WANT CHOW These Negro children are among 85 / staging sitdown [sic] strike in luncheon- / ette of Oklahoma City department store, seeking food and / fountain service. Store management is holding to policy / of many Oklahoma City eating places against serving / Negroes. Children have appeared three days. (AP photo); lower center stamped in blue ink: AUG 26 1958; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 90.6

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