Birmingham Gets New Look at Past

Previously unpublished photographs from the civil rights era were discovered in an equipment closet at the Birmingham News and appeared for the first time Sunday in a special section of the newspaper.

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Unseen. Forgotten

May 3-9, 1963: Youths are pummeled by water from a fire hose during a Children's Crusade demonstration in downtown Birmingham.

I remember, as a kid, watching these scenes with the water hoses on TV.