From negatives to positives

Scott Walker, AME for the Birmingham News, sends along a special section running Sunday's (that's today) paper. Apparently a photo intern was rummaging through an old equipment closet when he/she came across a box marked "Keep. Do not sell." In the box was more than 5,000 unpublished images of the civil rights movement from 1950-1965. Read the full story here. There are dozens more images online here. You can get your very own PDF of the section here.

Scott says:

For the first time, we're publishing dozens of previously lost images of the civil rights movement in Alabama. From segregation and the Freedom Riders in Birmingham to "Bloody Sunday" in Selma – the pictures are remarkable and have never been seen by the public. Until now.

Wow. That's just remarkable work.