Ernest Withers-Civil Rights Photographer

This man captured the most important moments of the Civil Rights Movement. He captured photographs such as Emmit Till's gruesome racial murder, he was also there when the nine students integrated Little Rock Central High School, and also when moments after Martin Luther King was assassinated.

("Little Rock 9" and the white students waiting for them on the front steps of the high school)
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Although slavery had been over for a while, African Americans were still going through mistreatment.  "Seperate but equal" is what they referred to to them. But they were not being treated "equal". They did everything to them pretty much to let them know that even though slavery was over they were still not equal to  white people. Television and Newspapers were constantly competing everyday. With pictures and actual videos on TV so everyone can see really opened everyones eyes in America. The civil rights movement had been put in America's living rooms and it changed many of the publics opinions.