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Today, his work is housed in a museum in memphis. in the decades since the civil rights era, we've learned that the fbi kept tabs on the movement and on the african-american community in general. we've also learned that withers was himself one of the agency's tipsters. here's soledad o'brien. ♪ >> the perfect informant would be someone good with names and faces. someone who could get inside both large community meetings and small strategy sessions. in memphis, tennessee, that someone was photographer earnest withers. >> as an established universally known photo journalist, everyone expected ...

Here's soledad o'brien. ♪ >> the perfect informant would be someone good with names and faces. someone who could get inside both large community meetings and small strategy sessions. in memphis, tennessee, that someone was photographer earnest withers. >> as an established universally known photo journalist, everyone expected him to be everywhere. he was absolutely the perfect information source for the memphis fbi office. >> theodore jackson is the sheriff of fullson county in georgia, but he began his career as an fbi agent in memphis. >> in the '60s, in order to keep the uprising in the n...

what officials from bahrain claim is happening in that country. the government of bahrain, the government there says they're using proportional force against protesters. the violence that we are about to show you is not by any definition proportional. the government of bahrain talks about law and order and keeping security. what you're about to see is the opposite of law and order. it is exactly what repressive regimes do when they think cameras are not rolling. only this time the cameras were rolling. you will see in a second protestors marching down a boulevard, hands in the air, c...

because it directly contradicts what officials from bahrain claim is happening in that country. the government of bahrain, the government there says they're using proportional force against protesters. the violence that we are about to show you is not by any definition proportional. the government of bahrain talks about law and order and keeping security. what you're about to see is the opposite of law and order. it is exactly what repressive regimes do when they think cameras are not rolling. only this time the cameras were rolling. you will see in a second protestors marching down ...