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Subject African Americans--Alabama--Birmingham Event Birmingham Demonstrations

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1. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Creator:: Bass, S. Jonathan
Date of Original:: 2007-11-09
Collection:: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Contributing Institution:: Encyclopedia of Alabama (Project)

2. Birmingham Campaign of 1963

Creator:: Eskew, Glenn T.
Date of Original:: 2007-09-20
Collection:: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Contributing Institution:: Encyclopedia of Alabama (Project)

3. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of the bombed ruins of the A.G. Gaston Motel and law enforcement patrolling the streets after a series of riots in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 May 11

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1963-05-11
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

4. Letter from Birmingham City Jail

Creator:: Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
Date of Original:: 1963-05
Collection:: Robert R. Church Family Papers
Contributing Institution:: University of Memphis. Libraries. Special Collections Department