![]() ![]() He took his first photograph in high school after his sister gave him a camera she received from a classmate. Withers exhibited interest in photography from a young age. Withers was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Arthur Withers and Pearl Withers of Marshall County, Mississippi he had a step-mother known as Mrs. Withers's work has been archived by the Library of Congress and has been slated for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C. 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. ![]() Withers (Aug– October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist. ![]() Photographs of the segregated South in the 1940s–2000s, Negro league baseball, and the Memphis blues scene.Įrnest C. ![]()
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