Created by:

Dr. Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007  Search this

Subject of:

Menelik Chiremba Fombi, American, born 1955  Search this

Harry Williams, American  Search this

Dwania Kyles, American  Search this

Unidentified Woman or Women  Search this

Medium:

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper

Dimensions:

H x W (Sheet): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

H x W (Image): 14 1/4 × 18 in. (36.2 × 45.7 cm)

Type:

gelatin silver prints

portraits

Place depicted:

Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America

Date:

1961

Caption:

These students, Michael Willis (now Menelik Fombi), Harry Williams, and Dwania Kyles, were three of the "Memphis 13," the group of thirteen first-graders who integrated four Memphis elementary schools on October 3, 1961. Willis, Williams and Kyles are pictured here on their way to Bruce Elementary School.

Description:

Three children, Michael Willis (now Menelik Fombi), Harry Williams, and Dwania Kyles, smile from a car window on their way to school as a woman, left, looks on.

Topic:

African American  Search this

Children  Search this

Civil Rights  Search this

Education  Search this

Photography  Search this

U.S. History, 1953-1961  Search this

Credit Line:

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number:

2009.16.18

Restrictions & Rights:

© Ernest C. Withers Trust

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification:

Media Arts-Photography

Movement:

Civil Rights Movement

Data Source:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5a5a80e7b-85ce-484c-a217-46cf25523dd7

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmaahc_2009.16.18