The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ernest Withers.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016] |
| Description | 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 59 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2003.147 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Ernest Withers |
| Portion of title | Ernest Withers |
| Abstract | Photojournalist Ernest C. Withers was born on August 7, 1922, and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He got his start as a military photographer while serving in the South Pacific during World War II. Upon returning to a segregated Memphis after the war, he chose photography as his avocation and profession. Withers photographed key civil rights moments, capturing everything from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the Memphis sanitation workers strike. In addition, Withers photographed Negro League baseball players and those jazz and blues musicians who frequented Memphis' Beale Street. His early photographs of musicians like Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin are legendary. Withers' photography was featured in many art galleries and exhibitions. Withers passed away on October 15, 2007. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Memphis, Tennessee 2003 June 28. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2003.147 HistoryMakers |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |