Withers, Ernest C. : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

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Withers, Ernest C. : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/199899248

The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6991684

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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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...