Documentary Examines Civil Rights Photographer Who Doubled As FBI Informant
A new documentary examines the life and works of Ernest Withers, a popular civil rights photographer who turned out to be an FBI informant.
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Confirmed: Civil Rights Era Photographer Ernest Withers Served as FBI Informant
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The civil rights era photographer Ernest Withers has been officially confirmed as a one-time FBI informant, reports the Blog of LegalTimes. The FBI in the past has long-refused to confirm or deny Withers’s status as an informant, but it accidentally confirmed Withers’ work in documents it released to a newspaper, a…
“Original Civil Rights Photographer” Was FBI Informant
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The late “original civil rights photographer” Ernest Withers snapped shots of history: the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot; King riding one of the first desegregated buses in Alabama. But there was a little known side to the man who had a front row seat in the civil rights…