Birmingham Alabama policemen use police dogs during civil rights demonstrations, Charles Moore

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1931–2010
Birmingham Alabama policemen use police dogs during civil rights demonstrations, 1962
Where object was made: Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 22.3 x 33.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 3/4 x 13 3/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 27.6 x 35.4 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2008.0325
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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2016 KU Common Book

“And all those old photographs from the 1960s, all those films I beheld of black people prostrate before clubs and dogs, were not simply shameful, indeed were not shameful at all―they were just true. We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only home, and the terrible truth is that we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our own.” ("Between the World and Me," p. 146)

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