Civil rights.
Birmingham News has just published photos from the civil rights era that were considered too inflamatory to publish when they were taken. I was struck, in particular, by the expressions on the faces of the two young black women as they entered an all-white school for the first time and by the face of the white woman waving a confederate flag.
A segrated school in Birmingham. April 4, 1961.
Integration of a high school in Birmingham. September 1963.
If you are white, would you have been among these people protesting the integration of an elementary school? Would you have been this woman? She looks so sure of herself.
Would you have protested the integration of your high school, as these high school students did? How do you know what you would have done?
What is the civil rights issue of our day?
Posted in Stories from the field, Uncategorized | Comments (1)