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Article: ALABAMA Birmingham's Civil Rights Institute presents a compelling history of the movement
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 26, 1995
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CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. -- If it happened anywhere else, I wouldn't have
paid it any mind. But here I noticed. Standing in Kelly Ingram
Park, where some of the darkest moments of the Civil Rights Movement
took place, a white man called me something.
Ma'am.
"No, ma'am. I'm not the gardener," he said in response to my
question about a lovely patch of freshly planted tulips in The Anne
Frank Tulip Garden, which honors those who have lost their lives in
the global struggle for human rights.
In Birmingham, especially when you come to the two-year-old Civil
Rights Institute, which is across the street from the park, you can't
help but think about things like that (especially if you're a black
woman who ...