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"The cause of desegregation must become a national movement to enforce national laws, led and directed by the national government." (newspaper columnist on Birmingham) Photo: Close-up of police dog sculpture. |
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"The cause of desegregation must become a national movement to enforce national laws, led and directed by the national government." (newspaper columnist on Birmingham) Photo: Close-up of police dog sculpture. |
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"A picture of a police dog set upon
a human being is recorded in the permanent photo-electric file of every
human brain." (newspaper columnist on Birmingham)
Photo: Additional police dog sculptures. |
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Political leaders in Birmingham refused
to meet the demands of the civil rights demonstrators for racial
integration in the city.
To keep the protests going, Martin Luther King, Jr., began sending African-American school children to march and sit-in. U.S. public opinion was shocked at the sight of Birmingham jails filling up with school students. Photo: Additional police dog sculpture. |
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This sculpture in Kelly Ingram Park memorializes the young school children who participated in the Birmingham demonstrations. "Don't worry about your children who are in jail. The eyes of the world are on Birmingham. We're going on in spite of dogs and fire hoses. We've gone too far to turn back." (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |