Steve Schapiro
James Baldwin and Medger Evers, Mississippi, 1963
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Image: 12 13/16 x 19 3/16 inches
Paper: 16 x 19 7/8 inches
Image: 12 13/16 x 19 3/16 inches
Paper: 16 x 19 7/8 inches
Edition of 25
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned on artist label
Literature
"The Fire Next Time" - TASCHENPage 40
James Baldwin joined the fight for equality in the South. Mostly, he offered a passionate voice for justice and a plea for a nation's salvation. In Mississippi in 1963, he visited the NAACP's Medgar Evers, who was slain later that June.