Ernest Withers

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:activeYears 1940s–2000s
gptkbp:allegedInvolvement FBI informant
gptkbp:birthDate 1922-08-07
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Memphis,_Tennessee,_United_States
gptkbp:children eight
gptkbp:deathDate 2007-10-15
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Memphis,_Tennessee,_United_States
gptkbp:genre portrait photography
documentary photography
photojournalism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ernest Withers
gptkbp:militaryService gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableFor photographs of Martin Luther King Jr.
documenting the American civil rights movement
photographs of Beale Street
photographs of Memphis sanitation workers' strike
photographs of the Emmett Till trial
photographs of the Montgomery bus boycott
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:photographer
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Mrs._Withers
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:The_Ernest_Withers_Collection_Museum_and_Gallery
PBS documentary 'The Picture Taker'
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Photographs_of_the_Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6