Unseen Unforgotten: Birmingham News Civil Rights Photos.

Birmingham News published a collection of never-before-seen photos of the civil rights movement in Alabama, forgotten for decades in an equipment closet:

The section is the result of research by Alexander Cohn, a 30-year-old former photo intern at The News. In November 2004, Cohn went through an equipment closet at the newspaper in search of a lens and saw a cardboard box full of negatives marked, "Keep. Do Not Sell."

The caption of the photo above:

March 1965: Thousands of marchers walk 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to bring attention to the low numbers of black registered voters in the South. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers had been trying to register more voters.

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Yeah, the website isn't very good but it's funny.
My husband and I usually refer to creepy vans as "Rape vans". It's awful, but what can I say... we're immature giggly adults that are easily amused :P
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"For some reason the creepiest mode of transportation is the van"

Nah. Surely the most suspect form of transport is anything with heavilly tinted windows, but especially if it happens to be a black MPV.
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@lisa, reminds me of the workaholics episode where they write 'rape van' on their van to keep people away from it

and ya, what an awful site, made looking at the creepy vans really annoying...and i enjoy looking at creepy vans apparently.
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