Photography

Ernest Withers

Ernest Columbus Withers, Sr. (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist. He documented over 60 years of African-American history in the segregated Southern United States, 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. Withers's work has been archived by the Library of Congress and has been slated for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and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.

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• ▸Ernst Haas
• ▸Costume
• ▸Henry Chalfant

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