The Story of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement in Photographs

Martin Luther King, Jr., called Birmingham, Alabama, the most segregated city in America. In 1963, he and other civil rights leaders believed it was time for a change. With hundreds of young African Americans joining the marches and protests throughout the city, civil rights activists' hoped to draw national attention. Angry segregationists reacted-violently. And it would play out in newspapers and on television screens across the country. Through dramatic primary source photographs, author David Aretha explores this time in the Civil Rights Movement.