Photographs and introduction kindly provided by
Tony Decaneas
Panopticon Gallery
UPDATE
On September 12, 2010 the article "Photographer Ernest Withers doubled as FBI informant to spy on civil rights movement. He provided agency with insider's view of volatile period" was published by Marc Perrusquia in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) that provided evidence that Ernest Withers was an FBI informant between at least 1968 and 1970.
