![]() The assassination of King.įor years, the men in the picture - the scene is also immortalized in bronze in a park in the center of Birmingham - remained nearly anonymous. The 16th Street Baptist church bombing by the KKK that killed four school girls in Birmingham. Kennedy said it made him sick.įrom that point, history unfolded. ![]() ![]() The photograph of the boy being set upon by a snarling dog ran on nearly every front page in America (though not in Birmingham). Associated Press photographer Bill Hudson was there with his camera. In response, Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor unleashed police dogs and fire hoses, and ordered the mass arrest of the children. Related: 'Disturbing' video shows LAPD cops shoot man dead on Skid Row So King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference sent 3,000 black school kids into the streets to protest segregation and all the shit that went with it. They could claim few in victories in Alabama since Rosa Parks had inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott eight years earlier. ![]() and the movement he led were stuck in the mud. It was this image of the cop and the dog and the boy - snapped in Birmingham in 1963, two years before Bloody Sunday - that brought the question of American apartheid to a head. ![]()
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