Firemen spraying civil rights demonstrators with fire hoses in front of the Parkview Inn in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, during the Children's Crusade.
The following caption accompanies the photograph: "Birmingham, Ala. May 3 - Today, in Birmingham, Public Safety Commissioner Eugene 'Bull' Connor ordered the use of high-pressure fire hoses in an effort to bring demonstrations by blacks to an end. Here, confrontation between firemen a...
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