Archive of photos from Civil Rights Era found
 

...and published for the first time in the Birmingham News.

Amazing photos...worth a look.

HERE...



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"August 1963: An anti-Semitic demonstrator marches on 22nd St. in Birmingham."


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"April 19, 1956: During sentencing for the 1956 beating of entertainer Nat “King” Cole at Municipal Auditorium, Jesse Mabry, E.L. Vinson, Mike Fox and Orliss Clevenger cover their faces inside a Birmingham courtroom."

Racism is such closed minded ignorance. To think that someone is less of a person because of the color of their skin, instead of the content of their character is absurd.

Hell, I even have a couple Raider and Mizzou fan friends... and if anyone should be segregated, it should be them. Back of the bus, bitches.

hey, the photos were discovered by an MU grad student:

"The section is the result of research by Alexander Cohn, a 30-year-old former photo intern at The News. In November 2004, Cohn went through an equipment closet at the newspaper in search of a lens and saw a cardboard box full of negatives marked, "Keep. Do Not Sell."

Cohn, who grew up in Mountain Brook and is a master's candidate at the University of Missouri, researched the images and discovered that many had never been published.

The Confederate Flag just brings up such negative emotion... that flag needs to go away.

What about the American flag.. It means the same thing, quit attributing the flag to racists, it is not... Just because some reeruns fly it for that does not mean it is a negative item.. Learn the real history of the flag..

You can't just disassociate the new meaning of a symbol because it's original meaning was something else.

That's like saying the swastika shouldn't be associated with nazis because it's original meaning was a symbol of the sun.

Too many people look at that flag an associate it with racism now. The meaning has shifted. It's not something that will be undone.

When you look at how far the American people have come, as a whole, in less than a century.

Wow.

The swastika has typically meant Nazis in our culture imediately after Nazis came along. There are only very rare incidences of swastikas in our culture before we encountered them. That flag however, has nothing to do with racism. It is the battle flag of the Confederacy and was used (as well as others) by Southern soldiers conducting warfare against what they viewed as a repressive government. If anything, it represents the native American belief that rebellion for a good cause is legitimate. I know that people who are ignorant of its origins do not like it because it represents something completely different to them as it has been used by hateful bigots for 150 years or so. That's not a good enough reason to destroy a symbol or decree it obscene. Destroy the racist terrorists in our country and decree them obscene instead.

By the way, it pisses me off to no end that this little terrorist cocksucking ****bag is toting that flag around. Makes my blood start to boil just looking at it.

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I live in Richmond, VA and it's part of our history...it doesn't need to go anywhere. If anything it stands as a testiment to our abilty to change who we are and what we do. It shows that we can disagee...spill our own blood and be made whole again.

Yo, represent East Siyyyyyde! I was born in Newport News and lived in that area for ten years of my life. At one point I lived halfway between Colonial Williamsburg and Bush Gardens.

Nice!!! I grew up in Virginia Beach. We are brothers then

It would seem that both symbols now have very negative connotations. Neither started out that way for sure (the swastika was around for 3000 years or so before it got its bad name), but both were adopted by terrible people. That's the way it goes.

BTW,
These pictures are incredibly powerful. I'd recommend looking at all the sets.

I will. I didn't notice the link until you mentioned it, thanks.

Heh, sweet. Do you still hear,"Norfolk, Suffolk and Virginia ****ing Beach." out there? That used to crack me up. I visited my family when my Grandpa passed away a few years ago. The pilot was trying to announce the nearby cities when we were close to landing and was having trouble. He stammered for a while and a big fat black lady in front of me yelled,"It's called Norfolk, honey!"