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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: spy in Canaan
    sub title: how the FBI used a famous civil rights photographer to infiltrate the movement
  name:
    name part: Perrusquia, Marc
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Ernest Withers captured some of the most iconic moments of the civil rights movement, from the rare photo of Martin Luther King Jr. in repose to the haunting photo of Emmet Till's great-uncle pointing an accusing finger at Till's killers. He was trusted and beloved by King's inner circle, and had a front row seat to history. But what most people don't know is that Withers was an informant for the FBI, and his photos helped the Bureau identify and surveil the era's greatest figures. This book explores the life, complex motivations and legacy of this fascinating figure.
  table of contents: Part 1. The assassination -- In the shadows -- A moment of peace -- Part 2. The discovery -- The agent's tale -- A bold photographer -- 'No angel' -- Into the shed -- Informant ME 338-R -- Part 3. The big break -- Up on the ridge -- The secret of the notes -- A tarnished badge -- An accusing finger: the Emmett Till case -- The breakthrough -- Part 4. Spying on the movement -- Assignment: tent city -- Tracking James Forman -- A prolific informant: Summer 1961 -- Communists, socialists, Black Muslims and assorted do-gooders: 1962- 1 -- The electric cross: the FBI gets tough, Summer 1965 -- James Lawson, civil rights and the peace movement -- The war in memphis: disrupting the peace movement -- The communist resurgence: dirty tricks, fear and harassment -- Part 5. To the brink: the FBI 's war on Dr. King and Black Power -- The rise of the invaders: COINTELPRO, the media and the FBI -- 'Is anyone looking for us?': The risks of working undercover -- 'How rotten, how filthy': undercutting sympathizers and supporters -- Death of a movement: the FBI and the collapse of the SCLC -- The Black Panthers, Hoover and the end of an era.
  note: Marc Perrusquia.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Withers, Ernest C
      name part: 1922-2007
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Federal Bureau of Investigation
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: African American photographers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American civil rights workers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Informers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights movements
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Civil rights
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Documentary photography
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Black power
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: Political aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
  classification: E185.97.W75 P47 2017
  classification: 323.1196/0730904
  identifier: 9781612193410
  identifier: 1612193412
  identifier: 2017055004
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180323
    record change date: 20180718090028.0
    record identifier: in00004019994