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The Foot Soldier of Birmingham

Revisionist History

The First African American Painting Hanging in Alabama

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In 19 63, Martin Luther King staged one of the most dramatic protests of the civil rights movement in birmingham. He wanted to strike at the symbol of racial oppression and get ordinary americans to understand just how bad things were for black people in the south. A photographer named bill hudson takes a picture of a white police officer with dark sun glasses a a big german shepherd. The next day, the new york times publishes the photograph above the fold, across three columns on the front page of its week end paper. President kennedy is asked about the photo, and he is appalled. It's exactly what king wants, something to show the rest of the world just how

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