![]() ![]() The story in the Birmingham News, the headline says: "Fire Hoses, Police Dogs Used To Hunt Down Negro Demonstrations." But the first paragraph is very stenographic. Now, flipping through them, if you want to point out any in particular, what stands out to you about what the average person is seeing when they open paper in 1963?īut you turn to page two and sometimes it spilled to page three, and you see very stenographic reporting about what went on at Kelly Ingram Park there when the dogs and the hoses were brought out against the demonstrators. We actually asked you to study a few papers, specifically the Birmingham News and look at some of the headlines we found from that period. Becoming an editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Philadelphia Inquirer. ![]() And so as a teenager I'm reading the paper that I'm delivering, I'd see the stack of newspapers I had there, I'd take off the string, roll the newspapers up, stick them on my bicycle, and wheel around the neighborhood throwing papers on people's lawns.įrom a teen newspaper delivery boy, you end up becoming a reporter yourself, obviously. And the afternoon paper, the Birmingham News, owned by the Newhouse company, was the dominant newspaper in Birmingham - it had the greatest circulation and it had the greater impact. We're about two and a half hours north of Birmingham, and the Birmingham papers nonetheless circulated statewide. I would have liked to have delivered the Birmingham Post Herald, but my cousin had that locked up, so I got the afternoon paper, The Birmingham News. As I hit my teenaged years, I had a paper route. HANK KLIBANOFF: Well, I was raised in a nice town in north Alabama, called Florence, and was a newspaper reader from the very beginning. Talk about where you were at this time and what this was like. She spoke with Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat, about coverage of the Civil Rights movement 50 years ago.ĪUDIE CORNISH: So you're originally from Alabama, and I read that you actually grew up delivering newspapers. But there's a stark difference between how the national press covered the events in Birmingham and how Birmingham's papers covered their own city.Īs part of NPR's series on that pivotal summer of 1963, Audie Cornish traveled to Birmingham, Ala., to revisit some of the stories that shaped the city and the nation at the time. This image led the front page of the next day's New York Times.Īs the Civil Rights Movement was unfolding across the US in 1963, the entire nation had its eyes on climactic events taking place in Southern cities like Birmingham, Ala., and Jackson, Miss. A 17-year-old Civil Rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. ![]()
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