Civil Rights Photos Finally Published
March 1st, 2006 by Laura Moncur in News
Hidden in the equipment closet of the Birmingham News was a box of photos marked, “Keep. Do Not Sell.” They were photographs of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama during the 1950′s and 1960′s. The newspaper was unwilling to print the photos back then, but the full photo gallery has been printed now.
If it is true that what we cannot see does not exist, then Alabama would have been able to brush these incidents under the carpet and we would have never been able to conquer the blatant racism in our country. Racism still exists today and it must be fought wherever it is found, but it’s good to see how far we’ve come in the last fifty years.
Via: CNN.com – Civil Rights photos uncovered, published – Feb 27, 2006