Irving Henry Webster Phillips Sr.

Irving Henry Webster Phillips Sr. or I. Henry Phillips, (January 16, 1920 – November 22, 1993) was a noted African-American photojournalist from Baltimore, Maryland.^[1] In 1946, after serving in World War II^[2] he became chief photographer at the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper.^[3][4] Phillips Sr. covered local and national news events such as the 1963 March on Washington, five presidential elections, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral.^[3][4] He died in 1993 at age 73.^[2]