{"id":28754,"date":"2010-09-14T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T22:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28754"},"modified":"2010-09-15T17:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T22:28:42","slug":"the-truth-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-truth-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The truth revealed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 28, 1968: Ernest Withers\u2019 image of striking Memphis sanitation workers with the sign \u201cI Am a Man.\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>Apropos of the Mercury storm phase we’ve been in and its propensity for revelation, a little tidbit about the sixties civil rights movement came to light this weekend. Apparently well-known black photographer Ernest Withers, who documented the civil rights struggle and died in 2007, was accidentally revealed to have been an FBI informant. Democracy Now!<\/a> ran the following on the story: <\/p>\n

And newly disclosed records show that one of the most prominent photographers of the civil rights era, Ernest Withers, was also a paid informant for the FBI. According to the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Withers worked closely with the FBI to monitor civil rights activists during the 1960s. Withers is said to have provided photographs, background information and scheduling details to two agents in FBI\u2019s Memphis spying office. Withers photographed Dr. Martin Luther King at several marches and was the only photographer to cover the entire trial of those accused in the murder of the black teenager Emmett Till. In January 2007, months before his death, Amy Goodman interviewed Ernest Withers at his studio in Memphis, Tennessee. He talked about one of his most famous pictures: a mass of striking sanitation workers holding signs reading “I am a man” at what would turn out to be the last march led by Dr. King.<\/p>\n

Ernest Withers:<\/strong> “The last march of his, of Martin King, they were lined up there at [inaudible] and Hernando outside of Cleveland Temple Church, and they were there with all those \u2019I\u2019m a Man\u2019 signs. And I thought it was dramatic and historic in what it was, but I didn\u2019t know it was ending up to be as popular. But it was the last march of Martin King.”<\/p>\n

Withers\u2019s alleged involvement was revealed because the FBI forgot to redact his name in declassified records discussing his collaboration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whatever Withers’ reasoning, his legacy of images undoubtedly worked to further the cause. A slide show of selected photos can be seen here.<\/a> Unfortunately, his natal chart suggests his motives were self-serving at best; please see Eric’s comment below for the link to that chart. — Amanda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apropos of the Mercury storm phase we’ve been in and its propensity for revelation, a little tidbit about the sixties civil rights movement came to light this weekend. Apparently well-known black photographer Ernest Withers, who documented the civil rights struggle and died in 2007, was accidentally revealed to have been an FBI informant. Democracy Now! … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}