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Arts > Photographers > 20th, 21st century > 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/
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.
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