This photo was taken in 1965. On the left is Cash Williams, a local civil rights activist. On the right is Terry Brown, a college student who traveled to Tennessee to join voter registration efforts as part of the Civil Rights Movement. They thought they were sitting for a portrait by their friend Ernest Withers - the famed civil rights photographer. What they didn’t know is that Ernest was an FBI informant, and this photo was sent back to Hoover’s second in command, William Sullivan, who ran COINTELPRO. The FBI was obsessed with proving that the movement had been infiltrated by communists, and really was a cover for fornication and miscegeny. The FBI opened a file on Terry Brown, filled with implications that she was really in Tennessee to carry on sexually with black men. Ultimately, Brown found out that angry local white residents were planning to shoot her and she fled the state. That story, plus James Meredith’s integration of Ole Miss and Medgar Evers funeral, in episode 5 of Unfinished: Ernie’s Secret - out today wherever you listen to podcasts (and link in my bio)