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Ernest Withers

Other: Ernest C. Withers

Born: 1922, 7 August - US, TN, Memphis
Died: 2007, 15 October - US, TN, Memphis
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
Photographer who recorded the everyday events of the American South as it went through the civil rights turmoils of the 1950s and 60s.
 
On September 12, 2010 the article "Photographer Ernest Withers doubled as FBI informant to spy on civil rights movement. He provided agency with insider's view of volatile period" was published by Marc Perrusquia in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) that provided evidence that Ernest Withers was an FBI informant between at least 1968 and 1970.

Ernest Withers

Portraits
 
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Ernest Withers, n.d., Self portrait of Ernest C. Withers, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/77653
Image: LL/77653
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Unidentified photographer, 1968, Ernest C. Withers, posing in front of his Memphis studio, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/92601
Image: LL/92601
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Unidentified photographer, 1968, Ernest C. Withers, posing in front of his Memphis studio, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/92602
Image: LL/92602
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