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Birmingham 1963
How a Photograph Rallied Civil Rights Support
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Birmingham 1963
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Narrated by:
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anonymous
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Written by:
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Shelley Tougas
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Alexa Sandmann
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Kathleen Baxter
In May 1963, news photographer Charles Moore was on hand to document the Children’s Crusade, a civil rights protest. But the photographs he took that day did more than document an event; they helped change history.
His photograph of a trio of African-American teenagers being slammed against a building by a blast of water from a fire hose was especially powerful. The image of this brutal treatment turned Americans into witnesses at a time when hate and prejudice were on trial. It helped rally the civil rights movement and energized the public, making civil rights a national problem needing a national solution. And it paved the way for Congress to finally pass laws to give citizens equal rights regardless of the color of their skin.
©2010 Shelley Tougas, Alexa Sandmann, Kathleen Baxter (P)2013 Capstone Publishers, Inc.