NPR: How The Civil Rights Movement Was Covered In Birmingham

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A 17-year-old Civil Rights demonstrator is attacked by apolice dog in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. This image led the front pageof the next day's New York Times.  BillHudson/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Excerpt: "As the Civil Rights Movement was unfolding across the US in 1963, the entire nation had its eyes on climactic events taking place in Southern cities like Birmingham, Ala., and Jackson, Miss. But there's a stark difference between how the national press covered the events in Birmingham and how Birmingham's papers covered their own city.

As part of NPR's series on that pivotal summer of 1963, Audie Cornish traveled to Birmingham, Ala., to revisit some of the stories that shaped the city and the nation at the time. She spoke with Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat, about coverage of the Civil Rights movement 50 years ago."