Don't Tread on Me

In 1963, a female protestor remained defiant as police dragged her away from a demonstration in Birmingham's nearby retail district. Activists in Birmingham, led for seven years by Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth before the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, put their lives on the line to rebel against the city's unjust and unconstitutional segregation laws. One such law, City Code Section 369, said, "It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant in the city at which White and Colored people are served in the same room...." Many Blacks marched to the retail district to protest such laws with sit-ins and boycotts of downtown stores. There, some whites spit on or verbally attacked the protestors, but the non-violent protestors did not strike back.

Birmingham, Alabama · United States