You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live : ten weeks in Birmingham that changed America
It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo--that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd--he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the ca...
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