I just saw this PBS Independent Lens episode about Ernest Withers.
For his life's work, Withers was elected to the Black Press Hall of Fame and received an honorary doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art.
Withers and his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Curry, raised eight children.
The FBI had him snitchin'! WHY??
Was it the 8 kids & his woman (never said it was his wife) that had him in such need?
The gallery of his work:
thewitherscollection.com
"The Picture Taker” - The life of photographer and FBI informant, whose nearly two million images came to illustrate America’s civil rights stories.
But there was a hidden story behind Withers’s iconic photographs that emerged only after his death, when the Memphis Commercial Appeal revealed that Withers had all along worked as an FBI informant, reporting back to the agency about the same activists he photographed.
BTW - I put the Independent Lens episode on the shelf next to the basement stairs if you want to peep it...
The book "Bluff City" written about him:
theintercept.com
He was there for nearly ALL of the major civil rights, music and other major/minor events.
He took the picture of Emmit Till's uncle pointing to identify one of the killers at the trial.
Some of his pics here:
www.michaelhoppengallery.com
Another video for the book "A Spy In Canaan":
He captured the "spirit" of BGOL before the internet...
thikkems club pics~
the count - "l-r, who ya' got?"
Quaid got that new coup - keeping 'em waiting, hey playa?
For his life's work, Withers was elected to the Black Press Hall of Fame and received an honorary doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art.
Withers and his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Curry, raised eight children.
The FBI had him snitchin'! WHY??
Was it the 8 kids & his woman (never said it was his wife) that had him in such need?
The gallery of his work:
Memphis Museum & Art Gallery - Withers Collection Gallery in Memphis Tennessee
Memphis' iconic museum & art gallery featuring the breathtaking photographic works of Ernest C. Withers during the civil rights era.
thewitherscollection.com
"The Picture Taker” - The life of photographer and FBI informant, whose nearly two million images came to illustrate America’s civil rights stories.
But there was a hidden story behind Withers’s iconic photographs that emerged only after his death, when the Memphis Commercial Appeal revealed that Withers had all along worked as an FBI informant, reporting back to the agency about the same activists he photographed.
BTW - I put the Independent Lens episode on the shelf next to the basement stairs if you want to peep it...
The book "Bluff City" written about him:
The Double Life of Civil Rights Photographer and FBI Informant Ernest Withers
In “Bluff City,” Preston Lauterbach explores the secret life Ernest Withers, a civil rights hero who secretly worked for the FBI.
theintercept.com
He was there for nearly ALL of the major civil rights, music and other major/minor events.
He took the picture of Emmit Till's uncle pointing to identify one of the killers at the trial.
Some of his pics here:
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers Exhibitions: Ernest C. WITHERS, Civil Rights & The Memphis Blues, 26 Jun - 30 Aug 2019
Another video for the book "A Spy In Canaan":
He captured the "spirit" of BGOL before the internet...
thikkems club pics~
the count - "l-r, who ya' got?"
Quaid got that new coup - keeping 'em waiting, hey playa?
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