A newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama, has unearthed a collection of dozens of never-published, haunting photos from the civil rights movement. They've republished many on the Web and are hosting a gallery show of some as well:
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."
(Thanks, The Divine Goat!)
