Civil Rights' most harrowing year
In 1963, racial tensions came to a head in Birmingham. The results changed the course of history.
(Image credit: The Associated Press)
April 4
(Image credit: College student Dorothy Bell, 19, of Birmingham, Alabama, waits in a downtown lunch counter for service that never came. She was later arrested with 20 other demonstrators.)
April 10
(Image credit: Al Hibbler, right, leads a line of sign-carrying demonstrators downtown.)
April 15
(Image credit: A police officer frisks a demonstrator following his arrest for an attempted sit-in at a downtown lunch counter.)
May 2
(Image credit: A 6-year-old girl waits for a policeman to take her name before she is led away to a police truck. More than 450 school children were arrested for protesting against racial discrimination.)
May 3
(Image credit: Young demonstrators sit on the sidewalk with hands behind their heads as high-pressure hoses are turned on their backs during a demonstration.)
May 4
(Image credit: Police lead a group of young students to jail after they are arrested for protesting against racial discrimination near city hall.)
May 3
(Image credit: A 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog.)
May 5
(Image credit: Teenage girls sit around in clusters in a building at the city fairgrounds where they are being held as wards of the juvenile court.)
May 8
(Image credit: A young woman is sprayed by a fireman's hose as an anti-segregation march is broken up by police.)
July 25
(Image credit: A stream of water from a high-pressure hose hits demonstrators as they protested segregation measures in the city.)
Sept. 15
(Image credit: The blast from the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing damaged cars parked in the street and blew out the windows from the stores.)
Sept. 17
(Image credit: The family of Carol Robertson, a 14-year-old girl killed in the church bombing, attend graveside services for her in Birmingham.)
