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To commemorate the anniversary, the Greater Birmingham Convention and Visitor Bureau teamed up with Georgia Coach Lines to wrap a tour bus with iconic photographs from the movement, serving as a traveling billboard of the rich history in Birmingham.
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Veterans of the campaign that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead to eradicate racial segregation remain firmly in the corner of racial justice now that they’re old and gray.
By JAY REEVES Created: May 14, 2021 05:28 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail for participating in landmark civil rights protests that helped change the nation in 1963. He spent days in custody and then lived decades haunted by a conviction for the most innocuous of offenses - parading without a permit - that he saw as noble yet others questioned with suspicion. I had to explain what it was, that it was from Birmingham, said Avery, 76. It always came up.
Yet Avery said he d do it again all these years later, and he has a message for the thousands of demonstrators who have been arrested nationwide during the months-long uprising over police violence and racism: Keep going. A lifelong mark in the name of justice is worth the trouble.