Ernie's Secret | E1 The Perfect Cover

Unfinished

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ernest Withers shot timeless photos covering the civil rights movement- Dr. King on that integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Emmett Till’s uncle pointing an accusing finger and striking garbage men in Memphis wearing I AM A MAN placards. His loyalty and dedication earned him the trust of movement leaders King, Young, Lawson. But what if that trust was misplaced - what if Ernest was leading a double life?

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0:00.0	Witness Docs from Stitcher
0:07.0	Little Rock Arkansas and the first phase of the trouble.
0:16.6	The white population are determined to prevent colored students from going to the school
0:20.2	their own children attend.
0:21.6	On the day nine black students were escorted by the National Guard into an all white high
0:26.2	school in Little Rock Arkansas.
0:28.4	Ernest Withers was the one who shot the photo.
0:31.4	The jury has just come back and has returned a verdict of not guilty.
0:36.6	When two white men were acquitted of the murder of 14 year old Emmett Till in Sumner, Mississippi,
0:42.4	it was Ernest who got the picture.
0:44.9	The year old protest against city buses is officially called off.
0:49.9	And Ernest was there.
0:51.3	His camera shutter clicking when Dr. Martin Luther King rode the first desegregated bus
0:56.1	in Montgomery, Alabama.
0:57.6	The legal citizens of Montgomery are urged to return to the buses to Marlameau and
1:03.4	a non-segregated face.
1:09.4	Ernest Withers was a legendary photographer.
1:12.6	He took over a million photos before his death in 2007.
1:16.7	Jackie Robinson, Arita Franklin, Elvis, even President Richard Nixon.
1:22.7	Ernest photographed all of them.
1:25.7	But it was his photos of the civil rights movement that are his most stunning, his most enduring
1:30.2	images.
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