![]() ![]() The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has in its permanent collection more than 100 of Withers’ black-and-white images. Withers’ photos provided records of the funerals of NAACP organizer Medgar Evers, who was killed after working to register voters in 1963, and King, who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. ![]() Withers went on to chronicle the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 and the enrollment of James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962. ![]() and his colleague Ralph Abernathy riding a bus in Montgomery, Ala., on the first day the transit system was desegregated in December 1956. Over the next several years Withers became an up-close witness to key moments in the civil rights movement in the South. “Ernest was doing conventional studio work,” his agent, Tony Decaneas of the Panopticon Gallery in Boston, told The Times, “but he loved history and he was aware of this social revolution that was taking place.” ![]()
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