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Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Ernest C. Withers
Double Exposure of a Nighttime March, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Double Exposure of a Nighttime March, n.d.

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Faces of Beale Street (III), n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Faces of Beale Street (III), n.d.

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Faces of Beale Street (V), n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Faces of Beale Street (V), n.d.

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Faces of Beale Street (IX), n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Faces of Beale Street (IX), n.d.

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Faces of Beale Street (X), n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Faces of Beale Street (X), n.d.

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Ernest Withers's Beale Street Studio, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Ernest Withers's Beale Street Studio, n.d.

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Andrew Young at The 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign in Marks, Mississippi, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

Andrew Young at The 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign in Marks, Mississippi, 1968

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Beale Street Entertainer, ca. 1940s, Archival Pigment Print

Beale Street Entertainer, ca. 1940s

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Portrait in a cotton field, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Portrait in a cotton field, n.d.

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Debra Nell Brittenum in her home late at night in First Communion gown, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Debra Nell Brittenum in her home late at night in First Communion gown, n.d.

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William H. Foote Homes, built for Black families just before the start of World War II, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

William H. Foote Homes, built for Black families just before the start of World War II, n.d.

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An Assembly at Booker T. Washington High School, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

An Assembly at Booker T. Washington High School, n.d.

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A Prom at Manassas High School, 1961, Archival Pigment Print

A Prom at Manassas High School, 1961

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Robert D. Thomas, a WDIA disc jockey known as Honey Boy, and Thelma Exelle, who ran a barbershop, were crowned king and queen of the Cotton Makers Jubilee, 1959, Archival Pigment Print

Robert D. Thomas, a WDIA disc jockey known as Honey Boy, and Thelma Exelle, who ran a barbershop, were crowned king and queen of the Cotton Makers Jubilee, 1959

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A shoeshine stand in Handy Park, named for composer W. C. Handy, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

A shoeshine stand in Handy Park, named for composer W. C. Handy, n.d.

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The Rocketeers at the Beale Street Auditorium, ca. 1950s, Archival Pigment Print

The Rocketeers at the Beale Street Auditorium, ca. 1950s

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A Memphis record store in the Summer, 1954, Archival Pigment Print

A Memphis record store in the Summer, 1954

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Beale Street nightclub customers (I), n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Beale Street nightclub customers (I), n.d.

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Student volunteer working to register voters, 1964-65, Archival Pigment Print

Student volunteer working to register voters, 1964-65

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Reecie Hunter Malone displaying her voter registration card, Fayette County, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Reecie Hunter Malone displaying her voter registration card, Fayette County, n.d.

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Warren Bonner watching voters in Fayette County election, 1966, Archival Pigment Print

Warren Bonner watching voters in Fayette County election, 1966

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Residents inspired by The Tent City drive, lining up to register to vote, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Residents inspired by The Tent City drive, lining up to register to vote, n.d.

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Thursdays, called 'Maids Day Off', Overton Park Zoo, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Thursdays, called 'Maids Day Off', Overton Park Zoo, n.d.

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Michael Willis, Harry Williams, and Dwania Kyles sit in the back of a car during the first day of Memphis school integration, 1961, Archival Pigment Print

Michael Willis, Harry Williams, and Dwania Kyles sit in the back of a car during the first day of Memphis school integration, 1961

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Segregationists gathered at the Tennessee Capitol, Nashville, 1956, Archival Pigment Print

Segregationists gathered at the Tennessee Capitol, Nashville, 1956

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Soldiers directing the way to Oxford, Mississippi, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Soldiers directing the way to Oxford, Mississippi, n.d.

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Martin Luther King Jr. waiting to be introduced at the Alabama Capitol after leading the fifty-four mile march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965, Archival Pigment Print

Martin Luther King Jr. waiting to be introduced at the Alabama Capitol after leading the fifty-four mile march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965

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Junienne Briscoe, sixteen-years-old, joined the picket lines along Main Street, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Junienne Briscoe, sixteen-years-old, joined the picket lines along Main Street, n.d.

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Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, TN, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, TN, 1968

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I Am a Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, TN, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

I Am a Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, TN, 1968

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Police converging on marchers with clubs, rifles, and tear gas to stop the looting on Beale and Main Streets, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

Police converging on marchers with clubs, rifles, and tear gas to stop the looting on Beale and Main Streets, 1968

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Morris Webb, beaten almost unconscious by officers, just after noon at a restaurant several blocks west of the Clayborn Temple, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

Morris Webb, beaten almost unconscious by officers, just after noon at a restaurant several blocks west of the Clayborn Temple, 1968

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Seventeen-year-old Larry Payne, his body laying in repose at the Clayborn Temple, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

Seventeen-year-old Larry Payne, his body laying in repose at the Clayborn Temple, 1968

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Chicago AFS-CME Demands Equal Rights for Memphis Strikers, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

Chicago AFS-CME Demands Equal Rights for Memphis Strikers, 1968

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Thousands march through fifteen blocks of downtown Memphis, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

Thousands march through fifteen blocks of downtown Memphis, 1968

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A mule train, part of Martin Luther King Jr.s Poor Peoples Campaign, leaves Marks, Mississippi for Washington D.C, 1968, Archival Pigment Print

A mule train, part of Martin Luther King Jr.s Poor Peoples Campaign, leaves Marks, Mississippi for Washington D.C, 1968

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Lionel Hampton, who played the drums and vibraphone, performs at the Hippodrome, ca. 1950's, Archival Pigment Print

Lionel Hampton, who played the drums and vibraphone, performs at the Hippodrome, ca. 1950's

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Big Ella, Club Paradise, ca. 1960's, Archival Pigment Print

Big Ella, Club Paradise, ca. 1960's

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B.B. King Performing on stage at The Hippodrome, Beale Street in Memphis, TN, with Bill Harvey, c. 1950, Archival Pigment Print

B.B. King Performing on stage at The Hippodrome, Beale Street in Memphis, TN, with Bill Harvey, c. 1950

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The WDIA Twins, ca. 1948, Archival Pigment Print

The WDIA Twins, ca. 1948

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy in the front row of a Montgomery, Alabama bus on the day that the city's public transit system was desegregated, n.d., Archival Pigment Print

Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy in the front row of a Montgomery, Alabama bus on the day that the city's public transit system was desegregated, n.d.

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Martin Luther King Jr., who led the procession of mourners at the funeral of Medgar Evers, is confronted by a Mississippi Highway Patrol Officer, 1963, Archival Pigment Print

Martin Luther King Jr., who led the procession of mourners at the funeral of Medgar Evers, is confronted by a Mississippi Highway Patrol Officer, 1963

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William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones (8 months old) during protest, Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, ca. 1950’s, Archival Pigment Print

William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones (8 months old) during protest, Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, ca. 1950’s

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Press Release

Press Release

Contact: contact@faheykleingallery.com  

 

Ernest Withers: I’ll Take You There

June 24th, 2021 through September 4, 2021

Closing Reception: Thursday, July 29th

 

*Exhibition & Closing Reception By Appointment Only*

 

The Fahey/Klein gallery is pleased to present “Ernest Withers: I’ll Take You There”, an exhibition hosted in conjunction with his recently published book, “The Revolution in Black and White” (CityFiles Press).  This exhibition and publication are a record of African American life in the South during the mid-20th century.  Withers’s photographs of Beale Street, family life in Memphis, the rise of Rock ‘n’ Roll and R&B, and the Civil Rights movement capture a time of radical change. 

 

“Photography is a collection of memories. One who is trained in photography knows that. Instinctively, people who have an occupation know what they ought to do. You call the fireman to put out the fire; you call the police to solve a police problem; and people who are news people and journalists are collectors and recorders of present evidence, which after a given length of time—days, months, years becomes history.” Ernest C. Withers

 

Withers documented a history that still resonates today, capturing the momentous, and often dangerous, upheaval of America’s civil rights movement across the South from the late 1940’s through the 1960’s. Apart from documenting those fighting for racial justice and equity, Withers gained acclaim by capturing the African American experience, creating a singular record of day-to-day life in an effort to better illustrate and understand life in the South during this crucial era. His vast archive also includes images of famed Memphians who brought Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Blues into the white, mainstream music scene. From blues to baseball, high school proms and football games to funerals and marches, and moments both mundane and historic, Withers was there, camera in hand. The confidence and skill he developed in the juke joints of Beale Street and on assignment for newspapers served him well when history happened. He was fearless in the face of intimidation, risking life and limb to get the shot.

 

Dr. Ernest C. Withers, Sr. (1922 – 2007) a native Memphian, is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist. His photographs have been published extensively in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Life, Jet, and Ebony. His well-known images comprise an unequaled time capsule of the heartland of Mid-Century America. Withers’s images are in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian and other esteemed institutions.

 

Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest C. Withers (CityFiles Press, 288 pages; $50) is available for purchase at the gallery while supplies last.

 

Press Photographs Available on Request