This Friday, January 13, 2012, we will be back in our regular meeting place – the University of Memphis Holiday Inn at 3700 Central Avenue.  Our speaker will be representing the Withers Collection.  The Withers Collection is a huge, 60-year span of over 1 million images covering Civil Rights, Memphis music, the Negro Baseball League, Beale Street, Memphis history and politics and much more.  All images were take by Ernest Withers, a renowned photojournalist who traveled with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others.

The museum and collection is located right here in Memphis, on Beale Street no less.  Come hear about the legacy the Mr. Withers left behind, and the good work the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery is doing to preserve, archive and interpret the huge collection.  As usual, we meet at noon, at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn.  Arrive early to get seated and started on lunch.