Alabama civil rights movement photos discovered

"Hundreds of photos from that era were lost, sold, stolen or stored in archives. Some of those pictures appear today for the first time in the newspaper, in an eight-page special section titled ‘Unseen. Unforgotten.’

"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.’…"

Read the whole story and view the photos from the Birmingham News at al.com/unseen. There’s a more coherent PDF of the story as it was published with complete captions next to the photos.

This is a really amazing find. Check it out.

Via Boing Boing via The Divine Goat