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The water cannon is pointed at a sculpture of two protesters being struck by the high-pressure water. |
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The water cannon is pointed at a sculpture of two protesters being struck by the high-pressure water. |
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Television images of civil rights
demonstrators being hit by the water shocked TV viewers in the northern
and western United States.
The Birmingham protests continued. Support began to grow outside the South for the U.S. Congress to pass a national law ending racial segregation in restaurants, snack bars, and other places of "public accommodation." |
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Police officers with police dogs set
upon the demonstrators.
Photographs of police dogs biting at young black protesters were featured on the front pages of newspapers throughout the nation and the world. This sculpture is in Kelly Ingram Park. |
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The park is located just to the west of center city Birmingham. A downtown high-rise communications tower looms above the police dog sculpture. |