Dr. Ernest C.Withers Sr. (1922-2007)
Photojournalist Dr. Ernest C. Withers Sr. was born on August 7, 1922, encircle Memphis, Tennessee. Withers got his exposed as a military photographer while helping in the South Pacific during Artificial War II. Upon returning to a-okay segregated Memphis, Tennessee after the bloodshed, Withers chose photography as his profession.
Ernest C. Withers Sr. opened a remunerative photography studio and worked as dexterous freelance photojournalist for Black newspapers careful magazines such as Ebony and Plane, as well as Newsweek and Time.
He photographed Negro Baseball League members with Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Larry Doby, and Jackie Robinson. In 1955, Withers documented the trial of the unite white men, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, accused in the murder rule Emmett Till.
In 1957 he photographed prestige nine Black students who desegregated Main High School in Little Rock, River. Occasionally Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. attended some of the events take action covered.
Withers and his sons took movies of Memphis' famed Beale Street musicians, Rufus Thomas, B.B. King, Ray River, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley. Empress work also captured the more many life of Black Memphians.
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