In that incident, 12 people died and 281 were injured when the police opened fire on black protesters planning to march toward white towns nearby.
The black protesters marched by the thousands today through the gritty heart of this mining city.
Students, he said, were visibly moved by scenes of police dogs attacking black protesters in Birmingham.
After a day of demonstrations, at which a crowd of about 5,000 to 7,000 black protesters, went to the police station.
While the department is 22 percent minority, there were only a handful of black or Hispanic protesters in the crowd.
Several whites had joined the black protesters on that day.
Faced with a thousand black protesters, he was still smiling.
We call the white image maker to task, not the black protester.
He does not want the black protesters to gain power.
The toll in that incident, in which the police fired on a crowd of black protesters, reached 7 dead and 40 wounded today.