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Negro/Black History Month February 21, 2022 She toured Ernest C. Withers Home Museum which houses the family’s personal collection of iconic photographs.

Withers’ son Andrew “Rome” Withers was on hand to talk about his father’s important work, and to sign copies of his book about his mother Dorothy Mae Withers.

“I was the person, you know, every time he shot a picture, he would pop a bulb out, I would be the one to go get the bulb and make sure there wasn’t any trash,” said Andrew Withers.

Alice Faye Duncan: Ernest Withers was a popular Memphis photojournalist. In 2006, he gifted me a book of his famous Civil Rights photographs. The collection introduced me to Black sharecroppers and their sad-faced children, standing in a field.