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Independent Lens: The Picture Taker

Independent Lens: The Picture Taker

Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:00pm - 11:00pm
WXXI-TV
Ernest C. Withers with 1941 Ford Woody photo mobile, Memphis, Tenn.

Credit: Ernest C. Withers/PBS

The vibrant life of Ernest Withers—civil rights photographer, and FBI informant—was anything but black and white.

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades of secret FBI service revealed only after his death. Was he a friend of the civil rights community, or enemy—or both? Independent Lens: The Picture Taker airs Monday, January 30, 2023 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

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