Why We Can't Wait Page 16
1. African Americans—Civil rights. 2. African Americans—Civil rights—Alabama—Birmingham. 3. United States—Race relations. 4. Birmingham (Ala.)—Race relations. I. Title.
E185.61.K54 2010
323.1196'0730761781—dc22 2010027828
Front cover: Dr. King walks to a press conference on May 16, 1963, in Birmingham.
To King’s right is Rev. Ralph Abernathy. The other men are unidentified.
Back cover: A seventeen-year-old demonstrator is set upon by dogs in Birmingham on May 3, 1963. He was in defiance of an “anti-parade” ordinance.