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Double Exposure

Number 24809
Subject Civil Rights
Source Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
State TN
Year 2010
Publication Date 09/12/2010; 12/19/2010
Summary The author discovers that a celebrated civil rights photographer actually doubled as an FBI informant in the late 1960s. The author pieces together elements of his undercover work and finds that the informant's work included reporting on the activities of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike.
Category Contest Entry
Pages 20
Keywords spy; FBI; FBI informant; civil rights; confidential
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