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Faces of Beale Street (IX), Photo by Ernest Withers
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I Am a Man by Ernest C. Withers
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Ernest Withers
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Ernest Withers' Exhibit Captures Legacy in Photos of Black History - ArtburstMiami
I spent a lot of time with the Withers family in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee on Brooks Road. My aunt and uncle lived down the street from the Withers household and everyone who lived in the area worked together in elections and community services for Black Indigenous People who lived in the area.
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Howlin' Wolf, Memphis grocery store, c.1951
photograph by Ernest. C. Withers
From "Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone" at Christies
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”Maids Day Off,” Memphis, Tennessee, late 1950′s
Image by Ernest C. Withers
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Howlin’ Wolf performing at a grocery store in West Memphis, Arkansas, 1951. Photo Ernest Withers.
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Elvis posing for a picture with renowned Memphis photojournalist Ernest C. Withers and two of Ernest's six sons, Clarence Earl and Perry, at the WDIA Goodwill Revue at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis | December 6, 1957.
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Faces of Beale Street (V), Photo by Ernest Withers
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Helen Humes, Palace Theatre, mid 1950s 🖤🖤🖤🖤
📸: Ernest Withers
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Ernest C. Withers, “A sign outside the Memphis City Zoo” (ca. 1959)
Instead of desegregating the Memphis Zoo and allowing guests in regardless of race, one day out of the year was set aside for Black Americans to visit.
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dr. martin luther king jr confronted by police at medgar evers's funeral by ernest withers, 1963.
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First investigated by the FBI in 1946 for having suspected communist ties, Withers' work came to an end after tapes revealed he was using his position to try to free a young Black man facing a long prison sentence for a first-time offense.
Withers was the only photographer to document the entire Emmett Till murder trial. He also documented Memphis's bustling Beale Street blues scene, making both studio portraits of up-and-coming musicians and going inside the clubs for shots of live shows and their audiences.
Hailing from Memphis, he was one of the first Black police officers to join the force after serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Although Withers was given a uniform, patrol car, and gun, he was forbidden to patrol white communities or arrest white people. His power was proscribed strictly within the confines of Black Memphis, during the height of segregation.
Preston Lauterbach, author of Bluff City, said, "When the news came out that he was an informer, people were so outraged because of what we know now the FBI was doing. But when you get into the story, you realize he was involved long before all the things we know about [FBI director] J. Edgar Hoover became public. There were instances in which the feds provided the only real help that the movement was going to get from any angle of the American government."
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