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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

All posts tagged "Ernest Withers"

The Institute: In Depth

Remembering Adjua Naantaanbuu, A ‘Hidden Hero’ of the Civil Rights Movement

A photo in a $50,000 city exhibit misidentifies her, adding to her obscurity

Marc PerrusquiaAugust 17, 2021

Legend has it the FBI sabotaged Martin Luther King Jr.'s last demonstration, a mass march down Beale Street that erupted in rioting and looting. A new book suggests civil rights photographer Ernest Withers of Memphis, an informant for the FBI, may have been compensated to disrupt King’s march, a theory that appears to lack credible substantiation. (Courtesy of Preservation and Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis – Press Scimitar collection)

Legend has it the FBI sabotaged Martin Luther King Jr.'s last demonstration, a mass march down Beale Street that erupted in rioting and looting. A new book suggests civil rights photographer Ernest Withers of Memphis, an informant for the FBI, may have been compensated to disrupt King’s march, a theory that appears to lack credible substantiation. (Courtesy of Preservation and Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis – Press Scimitar collection)

Watchdog

facts dispute new Book’s old Conspiracy theory about MLK’s Memphis march

There's no evidence MLK's last march down Beale Street was disrupted by paid saboteurs - or by photographer Ernest Withers.

Marc PerrusquiaApril 4, 2019

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Criminal Justice and Policing

Memphis Police surveillance of BLM protesters has roots in 1960s Panthers

The story of civil rights era informant Ernest Withers offers lessons for the modern age of corrosive surveillance

Marc PerrusquiaJanuary 29, 2019