US-CIVIL RIGHTS-SEGREGATION-BIRMINGHAM

Schoolchildren and students demonstrate in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, on May, 02, 1963, during a civil disobedience campaign to protest against racial segregation. In the sixties, Birmingham, Alabama, was a major centre of civil rights activities. In 1963, the American civil rights association Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized here nonviolent protests in an attempt to draw attention to the unequal treatment that African Americans endured in this southern city, one of the most racially segregated US cities. A series of clashes between young black students and white municipal authorities, ultimately led to the municipal authorities reforming the city's discriminatory laws, but also the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)