February 27, 2006
Photos from the Civil Rights Movement Published
The Alabama newspaper Birmingham News has published a collection of photographs taken by Birmingham News photographers during the civil rights movement and previously unpublished. The photographs, which were found in a forgotten cardboard box in a closet at the newspapers offices, depict the history of the movement in Alabama from 1956 to 1965 and include images that the editors thought too controversial to publish back then.
In all 5,000 photographs were found. The newspaper published over 30 of the photographs in its print edition and has set up a multi-media website where many more of the images appear, along with explanatory captions and interviews with photographers and other protagonists of the era.
