Black-owned Grocery Store, Sunday, Mileston, Mississippi
1968
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 21.9 × 32.7 cm (8 5/8 × 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 28 × 35.2 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David Knaus
Accession Number
2022.149.1
Art Historical Context
**Black-owned Grocery Store, Sunday, Mileston, Mississippi** (1968) is a poignant gelatin silver print by Doris A. Derby, a pioneering photographer and civil rights activist. Captured in rural Mississippi during a pivotal year marked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and ongoing struggles for racial justice, this image depicts a modest Black-owned grocery store on a quiet Sunday. Derby, who documented Southern Black life through her work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), highlights everyday resilience amid systemic oppression. The photograph's historical ...