‘Get down to Birmingham, Alabama.’ So I did.”Photographer Colin Jones is casting his mind back 55 years, to a time when the slow pace of communications made journalism both simpler and more confusing. But I had my cameras with me.”Jones soon discovered he was flying into the cauldron of the civil rights movement just as it was boiling over. That April in 1963 Martin Luther King had written from the city’s jailhouse: “Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 Read more“I just took as much as I could because I wasn’t 100% sure what was going on,” says Jones. The media coverage and worldwide shock brought the civil rights issue to the attention of President John Kennedy.

Source: The Guardian May 12, 2018 13:13 UTC