A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement

by Marc Perrusquia

Book Overview

A Spy in Canaan is the story of Ernest Withers, a photojournalist who extensively covered the civil rights movement from Memphis. His pictures, like the iconic photo of Martin Luther King Jr. riding a recently de-segregated bus, are some of the most famous in history. The story goes much deeper, though, and Withers secretly doubled as an FBI informant while he was shooting iconic pictures that propelled the movement. Marc Perrusquia broke the story...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612193412
• ISBN13: 9781612193410
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"