Ernest Withers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest Withers

American photographer

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1922

Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 15-Oct-2007

Profession: photographer, artist, photojournalist, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ernest C.
Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist.
He documented over 60 years of African American history in the segregated South, with iconic images of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Emmett Till, Memphis sanitation strike, Negro league baseball, and musicians including those related to Memphis blues and Memphis soul.
In 2010, it was revealed that Withers was a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigations' COINTELPRO program.Ernest Withers work has been archived by the Library of Congress and has been slated for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C.