Showing posts with label Ernest Withers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ernest Withers. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2019
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Behind the Headlines more on Withers
Reactions to the Commercial Appeal investigative piece about famed civil rights era photographer Ernest Withers' work as an FBI informant.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Earnest Withers
Ernest Withers documented the Civil rights Movement from the 1950's through the 1960s. His Civil Rights photos are know for their immediacy and directness that stems from his use of a 50mm lens.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Civil rights photographer, Ernest Withers
Ernest Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African American freelance photographer famous for his black and white images of the segregated South in the 1950s and 60s, Negro league baseball, and the Memphis blues scene.
His images captured America for nearly 60 years, preserving the good and the bad, in particular, racism. He traveled with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his public life. Withers' coverage of the Emmett Till murder trial brought national attention to the racial violence taking place during the 1950s in Mississippi, among other places.
Evidence that surfaced in 2010 shows that in the years 1968 to 1970 Ernest Withers was forced to serve as a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover. Withers reported on the activity of several Civil Rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr.
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