Photo Gallery of Birmingham 1963

  • Bull Connor and the Firemen with Hoses. Birmingham, 1963 - Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene Bull' Connor, who ordered Birmingham police to attack protesters with dogs and fire hoses.
  • Three Individuals being Sprayed by Hoses. Birmingham 1963 - For years, Birmingham, Ala., was considered 'the South’s toughest city,' home to a large black population and a dominant class of whites that met in frequent, open hostility. Birmingham in 1963 had become the cause célèbre of the black civil rights movement as nonviolent demonstrators led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. repeatedly faced jail, dogs and high-velocity hoses in their tireless quest to topple segregation. This picture of people being pummeled by a liquid battering ram rallied support for the plight of the blacks. Charles Moore's famous photos of the firehoses in Birmingham in 1963 (c Charles Moore, 1963).
  • Line of Protesters Kneeling - African Americans kneel outside City Hall in Birmingham, AL, 1963.
  • Women arrested in Birmingham - Youth arrested during peaceful demonstrations in Birmingham, 1963.
  • MLK in March on Good Friday, 1963.
  • MLK in Jail - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Birmingham jail. Photograph courtesy of National Archives and Record Administration, 306-PS-68-1130, April 1963.
  • Man being attacked by dogs - Police use dogs to quell civil unrest in Birmingham, Ala. in May of 1963. Birmingham's police commissioner 'Bull' Connor also allowed firehoses to be turned on young civil rights demonstrators. Photo Source: The Seattle Times Online. c. Associated Press
  • Taunting White Policemen - In front of a Birmingham department store, black youths taunt a white policeman.
  • Three High School Student Holding Hands - Three students protesting segregation join hands to build strength against the force of water sprayed by riot police in Birmingham, May 4, 1963. Many Parker High School students were arrested in the protests.
  • ASSOCIATED PRESS / BILL HUDSON.
  • March on Washington - Photograph of the August 1963 March on Washington courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
  • Church Bombing - On September 15, 1963 the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed killing four little girls who were attending Bible study that Sunday morning. United Press International, September 16, 1963.
  • Four Little Girls killed in the 16th Street Church Bombing - Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley.
  • Birmingham Integration 1963 - September 10, 1963.
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