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In 2011, the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery was established at 333 Beale St., the site of his last working studio. And on Tuesday, his legacy received a major boost, when the location was ...
When the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery became a part of the National Civil Rights Trail last week, Memphis Mayor Paul Young said, “There’s no other city in the country that can tell ...
Ernest C. Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist.He documented over 60 years of African-American history in the segregated Southern United States, with iconic images of the Montgomery bus boycott, Emmett Till, Memphis sanitation strike, Negro league baseball, and musicians including those related to Memphis blues and Memphis soul.
‘You can say that our history is not important, but when we have proof of our history, you can’t erase it,’ on the photography of her father, Ernest Withers
Beale Street in 1974 Beale Street in 2014 Rex Billiard Hall for Colored, Beale Street, 1939.Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.. Beale Street was created in 1841 by entrepreneur and developer Robertson Topp (1807–1876), who soon named it later in the decade for Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a military hero from the Mexican–American War.
TM Garret Schmid (born September 28, 1975 as Achim Schmid) publicly known as TM Garret, is a German-American author, producer, filmmaker, marketing expert, radio personality, human rights activist and founder of C.H.A.N.G.E, a Memphis-based non-profit organization which engages in community outreach programs, food drives, seminars, anti-racism campaigns and anti-violence campaigns.
The rededicated space features photos from the Ernest Withers Collection, three podiums with language from three different speeches King gave and a fountain. The fountain is heated so it can run ...
Withers has works in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, the University of Western Australia and the State Library Victoria. Her portrait of her husband Richard McCann was shortlisted for the Archibald Prize in 1939. [12]