Blac Ops:Civil Rights Photographer Ernest Withers
A veteran freelancer for America’s black press, Withers was known as “the original civil rights photographer,” an insider who’d covered it all, from the Emmett Till murder that jump-started the movement in 1955 to the Little Rock school crisis, the integration of Ole Miss and, now, the 1968 sanitation strike that brought King to Memphis [...]
Martin Luther King Jr. Revisited
These historic photos were taken on the night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination . They were never published until today. Go to CNN.com for the interactive slideshow, very powerful… Also check out life.com’s rare photos of the civil rights movement.
