New records show the FBI was secretly monitoring a U.S. Civil Rights Commission worker decades ago to keep a better eye on black activists in Memphis, Tenn., the Associated Press reports.
The FBI collected photographs of Rosetta Miller-Perry, studied her political views and even investigated her love life, according to the Commercial Appeal.
Records also show that photographer Ernest Withers, whose images of the civil rights era were seminal, secretly worked for the FBI to photograph Miller-Perry and others.
“It’s scary even when I think about it now,” Miller-Perry, 77, told the Commercial Appeal.
