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Key Figure in Civil Rights Movement was FBI Informant

by Josh Marshall
09.14.10 | 8:11 am

Famed photographer of the civil rights movement, Ernest C. Withers, who sat in on some of the most sensitive strategy meetings of the movement, was also an FBI informant.

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