Ernest C. Withers, a famed photographer who chronicled the civil rights movement in photographs and was able to sit in on some of the most sensitive strategy meetings, also worked as an informant for the FBI, Memphis’ Commercial Appeal reports.Withers, who died in 2007 at age 85, had marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was there for all the major events in the movement. The newspaper described him this way:
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