"Anti-Integration Demonstrators in Birmingham"
Associated Press
United States, established 1846
September 4, 1963
A gelatin silver print photo made to document a tense 1963 Birmingham street confrontation between anti‑integration demonstrators—some waving Confederate flags—and a line of uniformed police, capturing the civic conflict over desegregation.
What hits you is the frozen standoff: a single man squared off and shouting toward a rigid line of officers, flags and a crowd packed on the curb forming a tight, oppositional mirror across the street.
As hard‑edged photojournalism, it made visible the everyday spectacle of organized white resistance to integration and helped mobilize national attention to the urgency of the civil‑rights struggle.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 5/8 × 11 1/2" (19.4 × 29.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The New York Times Collection
Accession
1945.2001
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