Famed civil rights photographer a spy
(NEWSER) - Ernest Withers, the famed “original civil rights photographer” and close confidant of Martin Luther King, was secretly a paid FBI informant, cluing the government in on all the Civil Rights Movement’s activities, according to a two-year investigation from the Memphis Commercial Appeal . Withers tailed King for the feds the very day before his assassination, telling the FBI about a meeting he had with suspected black militants. More»
