The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ernest Withers

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Ernest Withers

6/28/2003

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2003.147

Photojournalist Ernest Withers (1922 - 2007 ) documented the Civil Rights Movement and rising musical stars in Memphis. In his more than sixty-year career, Withers accumulated a collection of an estimated five million photographs. Withers was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/28/2003, in Memphis, Tennessee. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 4; Total Run Time: 01h 59m 20s

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Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007

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Photojournalist Ernest C. Withers was born on August 7, 1922, in Memphis, Tennessee. Withers got his start as a military photographer while serving in the South Pacific during World War II. Upon returning to a segregated Memphis after the war, Withers chose photography as his profession.In the 1950s, Withers helped spur the movement for equal rights with a self-published photo pamphlet on the Emmitt Till murder. Over the next two decades, Withers formed close personal relationships with Dr. Mart...