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gptkb:person
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1922-08-07
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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gptkb:Memphis,_Tennessee,_United_States
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gptkbp:children
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eight
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gptkbp:deathDate
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2007-10-15
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gptkbp:deathPlace
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gptkb:Memphis,_Tennessee,_United_States
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gptkbp:exhibitedAt
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gptkb:National_Civil_Rights_Museum
gptkb:Smithsonian_Institution
gptkb:Withers_Collection_Museum_&_Gallery
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gptkbp:FBIInformant
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yes
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gptkbp:FBIInformantCodeName
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ME 338-R
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gptkbp:genre
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portrait photography
documentary photography
photojournalism
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Ernest C. Withers
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gptkbp:militaryService
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gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkb:World_War_II
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:American
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gptkbp:notableFor
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documenting the civil rights movement
photographing African-American history
photographing Memphis blues and Beale Street
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gptkbp:notableWork
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photographs of Martin Luther King Jr.
photographs of the Emmett Till trial
photographs of the Montgomery bus boycott
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:photographer
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gptkbp:photographed
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gptkb:B.B._King
gptkb:Beale_Street
gptkb:Medgar_Evers
gptkb:Rosa_Parks
gptkb:Sanitation_Workers'_Strike,_Memphis,_1968
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Mrs._Withers
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gptkb:North_Lawndale,_Chicago
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