February 28, 2006
Unpublished Civil Rights photos from Birmingham, AL found after 4 decades.
In all, Cohn said, he found 5,000 images from 1950 to 1965 in the cardboard box. He examined 2,000 and estimated that most had not been published.
Why weren't more of the photos published 40 or 50 years ago? "It was difficult for people to see," said Horace Huntley, director of oral history at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "People were embarrassed by it. The city fathers were embarrassed by it."
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these are very interesting, thanks!
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Like ghosts.
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This thread is useless without pic-- oh. Wait. Good post, Lara!