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Arts > Photo > USA > Ernest C. Withers 1922-2007
Ernest Withers’s photograph of a march in Memphis in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Photograph: Dr. Ernest C. Withers, Sr. Withers Family Trust
The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant NYT Jan. 18, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/
William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones (8 months old) during protest, Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, 1950s
William Jones, a librarian at Memphis’s Owen Junior College, made this sign himself. His wife, who was active in the civil rights movement, encouraged him to march that day. Renee had been told the march that day was for fathers and daughters. The NAACP organisers did not want whole families to picket together, for fear of violence, so her mother and brother stayed home.
Photograph: The Ernest C Withers Family Trust; courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
Rock’n’roll and the civil rights struggle: African American life in the south – in pictures Ernest C Withers’ photographs take viewers to the record stores, picket lines and proms of the American south during the 1940s, 50s and 60s G Wed 9 Jun 2021 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/09/
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Junienne Briscoe, 16 years old, joined the picket lines along Main Street, no date
Junienne Briscoe-Reed was a 16-year-old Melrose high school student when she joined the picket line along Main Street. She recalled demonstrating in front of Goldsmith’s, Dillard’s and Lowenstein’s department stores. ‘I did this so that my children wouldn’t have to go through the humiliation that I did,’ she said. ‘Separate drinking water, separate bathrooms. It was painful’
Photograph: The Ernest C Withers Family Trust; courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
Rock’n’roll and the civil rights struggle: African American life in the south – in pictures Ernest C Withers’ photographs take viewers to the record stores, picket lines and proms of the American south during the 1940s, 50s and 60s G Wed 9 Jun 2021 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/09/
Ernest C. Withers 1922-2007
one of the most celebrated photographers of the civil rights era - and a paid F.B.I. informer find source
Starting in the early 1960s, Withers had spent nearly two decades as a paid informant of the F.B.I., feeding its agents information about the activists he photographed.
He not only informed; he took requests.
At one anti-Vietnam War march, he was askedto photograph all of the 30-odd protesters, taking special care to catch all their faces, and he turned 80 8-by-10 prints over to his F.B.I. contact.
On occasion, he sold his work to a local paper, then gave copies to the bureau.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/09/
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2021/jun/06/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/
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