Images of courage

[markalot]

Newly found photos from Alabama. I keep staring at the photos and asking myself ... what the fuck were these people thinking. Then I'm reminded why Northern Kentucky is the furthest south I'll ever move.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060228/NEWS01/602280337

http://www.al.com/unseen/

[onest2.0]

wow..great pictures!!!

[Sushi]

Thank you for posting the links to those photos. They're inspiring.

[REMgirl]

While sometimes it seems that race relations haven't progressed much at all over the years, seeing those photos reminds me that the strides made have been sizable.

It seems inconceivable that within my lifetime anyway, people of color were segregated from Caucasians. I mean, human beings were kept apart on buses, in schools, in churches based on the color of their skin. It's amazing to me that people were taught that black people were somehow second class citizens.They were taught that as children; they didn't automatically hate blacks on their own. I can't believe that it happened, but it did. And worse.

Thanks for posting those photos as a reminder that we have come a long way, even though things aren't perfect and probably won't be. It gives hope.

[afterdinnerman]

Ironic that Reverend Shuttlesworth was so prominently shown in that picture given his own spotty record concerning discrimination, especially of late.