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Central High, which in 1957 was a flashpoint in the struggle to integrate the nation's public schools, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Photography of
Phil Cherner
In addition to his law practice, Phil Cherner is an internationally recognized photographer. Some of his work was recently on display at the Festimatge 2012 exhibition in Calella, Spain.
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Central High, which in 1957 was a flashpoint in the struggle to integrate the nation's public schools, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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In 1955 14-year-old Emmitt Till traveled from Chicago to the the Mississippi Delta to spend the summer with family. He supposedly "got smart" with a white woman at this country store in Money, Mississippi and was lynched a couple days later by her husband. The husband and his accomplice were tried and acquitted of the murder in this courtroom, which sits of the second floor of a still-used courthouse in Sumner.
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The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The "Children's Crusade" emerged from here in 1963 to confound Bull Connor and change America. A few weeks later Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley were killed when the church was bombed. Today a statue of Martin Luther King stands guard across the street.
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The Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, and Brown Chapel AME Church, where the protesters gathered before the march to Montgomery in 1965.