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Ernest Withers
1922–2007
United States
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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.
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