Object Details
Created by
Dr. Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007
Subject of
Menelik Chiremba Fombi, American, born 1955
Harry Williams, American
Dwania Kyles, American
Unidentified Woman or Women
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.
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Date
1961
Object number
2009.16.18
Restrictions & Rights
© Ernest C. Withers Trust
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Type
gelatin silver prints
portraits
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)
Place depicted
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
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Classification
Photographs and Still Images
Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Data Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Topic
African American
Children
Civil Rights
Education
Photography
U.S. History, 1953-1961
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmaahc_2009.16.18