While legal segregation ended with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, social segregation persisted, and in some parts of the Mississippi Delta it still holds sway today. The peacock wicker chair in this photo belonged to the artist’s grandmother who often sat in this chair on her porch at the Mayfair Plantation. Jasper, having full knowledge of who occupied this chair, would have never voluntarily sat here. The artist asked Jasper to pose for this image. Jasper, with his arms resting on the chair’s sides, sits tentatively. He has not fully positioned his body into the seat of the chair, nor does he lean back into it. It is reasonable to suggest that the artist is depicting a repositioning of power; from that of the family matriarch to that of the newly franchised Black voter.