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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Dozens of never before released photos from the civil rights era came to light this weekend after an intern discovered them buried in an equipment closet at the Birmingham News.
The photos had been in a box marked: "Keep. Do Not Sell." But at the time they were taken, the newspaper didn't want to draw attention to the racial discord of the 1950s and 1960s, news photographers from the period said.
On Sunday, the photos finally went to print in a special eight-page section called "Unseen. Unforgotten." Others are on the newspaper's Web site at http://www.al.com/unseen .
Read the rest of the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060227/...rgotten_photos
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Thanks for posting these, CT4. These pics and others like them, add yet another dimension to the movement story. Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, chronicled in several of the photos, happens to be my grandfather.
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