Famed civil rights photographer doubled as FBI informant

Ernest C. Withers, a revered civil rights photographer who captured iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr. on the night King was shot in Memphis, actually played a different role the day before: FBI informant.

                                Children huddle in entrance in Tent City

Children huddle in the entrance of a tent during 1960 in Tent City near Somerville, Tenn. Tent City was home to black sharecroppers who were kicked-offwhite-owned lands in 1960 because blacks were registering to vote. Pipe at top is from a stove in the tent.

                              Tent City, near Somerville, Tenn., was home

Tent City, near Somerville, Tenn., was home for black sharecroppers who were kicked off white-owned land in 1960 because they registered to vote.

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