Event Recap: Book Club: Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers by Preston Lauterbach

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers by Preston Lauterbach

 
Book Description: 

Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till’s uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at one of his nephew’s killers; scores of African-American protestors, carrying a forest of signs reading "I am a man." But while he enjoyed unparalleled access to the inner workings of the civil rights movement, Withers was working as an informant for the FBI. Read More 

 

We will meet at the Metropolitan Opera Guild on March 4th at 5 pm (just prior to our February PWP regularly scheduled monthly meeting).

 

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