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BCRI1_161109_006.JPG: 9. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
No one did more to bring about positive change in Birmingham than the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. In his struggle for equal rights, he survived a series of assaults, including the bombing of his home and a brutal armed beating by the Ku Klux Klan. In spite of it all, he was instrumental in victory after victory for civil rights in Birmingham and America.
BCRI1_161109_008.JPG: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
Birmingham's civil rights freedom fighter with singular courage he fired the imagination and raised the hopes of an oppressed people.
John Walter Phoden, Sculptor
Native son of Birmingham 1992
BCRI1_161109_025.JPG: I Have A Dream
by Marina Herrera
BCRI1_161109_036.JPG: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
BCRI1_161109_058.JPG: Barriers
1920s-1950s
BCRI1_161109_070.JPG: Convicts Provide Cheap Labor
BCRI1_161109_072.JPG: Unions Are an Uphill Battle
BCRI1_161109_074.JPG: Blacks Denied Equal Status
BCRI1_161109_076.JPG: A Society of Their Own
BCRI1_161109_079.JPG: Segregated by Custom and Law
BCRI1_161109_084.JPG: No White Folks' Job
BCRI1_161109_091.JPG: The Color Line on the Field
BCRI1_161109_093.JPG: The Color Line on the Field
BCRI1_161109_097.JPG: A Company Town
BCRI1_161109_110.JPG: Signs of Segregation
BCRI1_161109_115.JPG: Back of the Bus
BCRI1_161109_117.JPG: Interstate buses were required to designate "colored" seating areas when traveling in the South. c 1953
BCRI1_161109_119.JPG: "Colored" hotels provided lodging for Black travelers in cities throughout the South.
BCRI1_161109_123.JPG: Black Culture in Full Swing
BCRI1_161109_133.JPG: Movies in Black or White Only
BCRI1_161109_136.JPG: The Place to Be Saturday Night
BCRI1_161109_142.JPG: John T. "Fess" Whatley
BCRI1_161109_144.JPG: The Black Entertainers
BCRI1_161109_147.JPG: Erskine Ramsey Hawkins
BCRI1_161109_150.JPG: Butter Beans and Susie were among the noted variety performers presented at the Frolic Theatre.
BCRI1_161109_163.JPG: A Separate World
BCRI1_161109_167.JPG: White Classroom, c 1953
BCRI1_161109_170.JPG: Black Classroom, c 1953
BCRI1_161109_173.JPG: School Days
BCRI1_161109_175.JPG: Educated Against the Odds
BCRI1_161109_177.JPG: Unequal Resources
BCRI1_161109_179.JPG: A High School for Blacks
BCRI1_161109_182.JPG: The Fight for Equal Education
BCRI1_161109_185.JPG: Praising the Lord
BCRI1_161109_189.JPG: A Community of Churches
BCRI1_161109_190.JPG: Faith in the Movement
BCRI1_161109_198.JPG: The Tradition of Faith
BCRI1_161109_200.JPG: Stained Glass Window
from Birmingham's 32nd Street Baptist Church
BCRI1_161109_203.JPG: Stained Glass Window
from Birmingham's 32nd Street Baptist Church
BCRI1_161109_206.JPG: Good Shepherds in Hard Times
BCRI1_161109_214.JPG: Birmingham Population Over Time
BCRI1_161109_220.JPG: Medical Care Based on Color
Bias Counted in Dollars
Teaching More For Less
BCRI1_161109_224.JPG: Can Separate Ever Be Equal?
BCRI1_161109_228.JPG: Medical Care Based on Color
BCRI1_161109_232.JPG: Teaching More for Less
BCRI1_161109_236.JPG: Some Kind of Justice
BCRI1_161109_237.JPG: Arthur Davis Shores
BCRI1_161109_239.JPG: Father James E. Coyle
BCRI1_161109_241.JPG: Justice Hugo Black
BCRI1_161109_243.JPG: These was no justice for these two Blacks, lynched in a public square. Neither man had reached his twentieth birthday. 1930
BCRI1_161109_245.JPG: This NAACP banner is suspended over pedestrians in New York City, c 1920s
BCRI1_161109_248.JPG: Convicted of Being Black
BCRI1_161109_249.JPG: Plessy v. Ferguson
BCRI1_161109_251.JPG: Cumming v. Board of Education of Richmond County
BCRI1_161109_253.JPG: Giles v. Harris
BCRI1_161109_258.JPG: Berea College v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
BCRI1_161109_261.JPG: Guinn and Beal v. United States
BCRI1_161109_263.JPG: Buchanan v. Warley
BCRI1_161109_265.JPG: Gong Lum v. Rice
BCRI1_161109_266.JPG: Powell v. State of Alabama
BCRI1_161109_269.JPG: Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
BCRI1_161109_271.JPG: Smith v. Allwright
BCRI1_161109_272.JPG: Mendez v. Westminter
BCRI1_161109_274.JPG: Morgan v. Virginia
BCRI1_161109_276.JPG: Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma
BCRI1_161109_278.JPG: Henderson v. United States
BCRI1_161109_280.JPG: McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
BCRI1_161109_282.JPG: Sweatt v. Painter
BCRI1_161109_292.JPG: Life at Home
BCRI1_161109_295.JPG: An aerial photo of Birmingham, taken in 1954. The lines drawn between Black and White areas can't be seen from this photo, but they were very visible to the city's residents.
BCRI1_161109_306.JPG: The Color Line on the Field
BCRI1_161109_318.JPG: Family Ties
BCRI1_161109_323.JPG: Reaching for the Good Life
BCRI1_161109_325.JPG: Behind the Color Line
BCRI1_161109_327.JPG: A City Built of Neighborhoods
BCRI1_161109_333.JPG: Black and in Business
BCRI1_161109_334.JPG: Davenport/Harris
BCRI1_161109_336.JPG: Serving Black Needs
BCRI1_161109_337.JPG: Arthur George Gaston
BCRI1_161109_339.JPG: This 1913 pharmacy, located in the Alabama Penny Savings Bank building, not only served Blacks, but was also Black-owned and operated.
BCRI1_161109_341.JPG: The Professional Community
BCRI1_161109_349.JPG: Barbershops and Beauty Parlors
BCRI1_161109_361.JPG: At a demonstration outside of Phillips High School, White segregationists display their objections to school integration.
BCRI1_161109_363.JPG: Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was beaten by a mob when attempting to enroll his children at segregated Phillips High School in 1957.
BCRI1_161109_366.JPG: On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court banned segregation in public schools. The legal team that argued the case included George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit.
BCRI1_161109_368.JPG: The Courts Support Change. Slowly
BCRI1_161109_376.JPG: Where did the name "Jim Crow" come from? The nickname for segregation was originally the title of a well-known minstrel song performed by White men in blackface.
BCRI1_161109_378.JPG: Selling a Cruel Stereotype
BCRI1_161109_382.JPG: Though less offensive than some Black images used to sell products, Aunt Jemima reinforced the stereotype of the happy, overweight "Mammy" figure.
BCRI1_161109_384.JPG: Painting a Racist Picture
BCRI1_161109_390.JPG: DW Griffith's 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation," is a legendary film classic and a racist masterpiece. It reinforced the images of noble and loyal Toms, clownish coons, stoic mammy, "tragic" mulatto, and brutal Black buck. The men of the Ku Klux Klan emerge as the heroes.
BCRI1_161109_394.JPG: Octavus Roy Cohen, a white humor writer, published short stories and novels about Black life at 17th and 18th Streets North of Birmingham. Cohen's central character, Florian Slappy, reinforced the images of the hapless Black man, shown in these illustrations from the books.
BCRI1_161109_405.JPG: Black Images in the White Mind
BCRI1_161109_411.JPG: Denied a Voice and a Vote
BCRI2_161109_001.JPG: Confrontation
BCRI2_161109_010.JPG: "Bombingham"
BCRI2_161109_011.JPG: C.W. Ashew views damage from a bombing that left a ragged hole between the living and dining rooms of this house.
BCRI2_161109_015.JPG: Bethel Baptist Church was damaged by a bomb in December, 1957. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, president of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, was pastor of the church.
BCRI2_161109_016.JPG: Bombings were a common response to the integration of the Smithfield community. In August of 1949, a blast blew off the rear of this home, purchased by a Black family, at 1st Street and 11th Avenue North.
BCRI2_161109_018.JPG: The Movement
BCRI2_161109_020.JPG: Oliver Hill
BCRI2_161109_021.JPG: Long Road to Equality
BCRI2_161109_022.JPG: Gomillion v. Lightfoot
BCRI2_161109_024.JPG: St. John Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education
BCRI2_161109_026.JPG: Zellner v. Lingo
BCRI2_161109_028.JPG: NAACP v. State of Alabama
BCRI2_161109_030.JPG: Angry about segregated seating and a fare hike, the Black citizens of Baton Rouge, Louisiana decided to boycott the city bus system in 1953. For eight days, commuters relied on a network of free rides. The city finally agreed to open seats except for two in front for White riders and two in back for Black riders.
BCRI2_161109_032.JPG: September 25, 1957:
Under the protection of the US Army, nine Black students entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Enrollment of the "Little Rock Nine" was the first important test of the Brown v. Board ruling. When the students first tried to enroll, on September 2, they were blocked by the state's National Guard, upon the order of Governor Orval Faubus.
BCRI2_161109_074.JPG: Bedrock of the Boycott
BCRI2_161109_091.JPG: Virginia Durr & Rosa Parks
BCRI2_161109_094.JPG: Profile in Courage
BCRI2_161109_095.JPG: Rosa Parks
BCRI2_161109_109.JPG: "Ain't Gonna Ride No More"
BCRI2_161109_111.JPG: The Sit-Ins
BCRI2_161109_114.JPG: On February 1, 1960, the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth store became the site of the noted "sit-in" which ignited the movement throughout the South. The four students who initiated the action were David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeil. McCain and McNeil are pictures above, 2nd and 4th from the left respectively.
BCRI2_161109_116.JPG: The First Act
BCRI2_161109_118.JPG: As news of sit-ins spread, people picketed local Woolworth's stores throughout the country to protest the "Whites only" policy in the South. This demonstration took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (March 19, 1960)
BCRI2_161109_120.JPG: Two White waitresses ignore Black students at this segregated lunch counter in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sit-ins quickly spread as an effective means of protesting segregation. (February 10, 1960)
BCRI2_161109_123.JPG: The Welcome Table
BCRI2_161109_148.JPG: James Lawson
BCRI2_161109_152.JPG: The Nashville Student Movement
BCRI2_161109_153.JPG: White employees of a Nashville cafe try to keep Black sit-in demonstrators from entering. The cafe's owner used a fire extinguisher in an attempt to repel the demonstrators. (November 25, 1962.)
BCRI2_161109_155.JPG: Diane Nash (third from left), a student at Fisk University in Nashville, was instrumental in organizing sit-in demonstrations and training students in nonviolent techniques. Also seen are Matthew Walker (near left), Peggy Alexander, and Stanley Hemphill (far right). (1960)
BCRI2_161109_158.JPG: At a workshop on nonviolent protest in Nashville, students practiced responding to attacks before participating in sit-in demonstrations.
BCRI2_161109_160.JPG: Bus Ride to Freedom
BCRI2_161109_166.JPG: Riding for Freedom
BCRI2_161109_167.JPG: As the Freedom Riders arrived in Anniston, Alabama on Mother's Day, May 14, 1961, an angry mob blocked the bus at the terminal.
BCRI2_161109_169.JPG: Rough Passage
BCRI2_161109_171.JPG: Outside of Anniston, the bus was surrounded and firebombed, and the Freedom Riders were attacked.
BCRI2_161109_173.JPG: James A. Peck was severely injured when a mob attacked the Freedom Riders at the Birmingham bus terminal. (May 14, 1961)
BCRI2_161109_185.JPG: On the Road Again
BCRI2_161109_186.JPG: More than 1,200 people crammed the First Baptist Church in Montgomery at a rally supporting the Freedom Riders. Outside, hundreds of Whites surrounded the church, throwing bricks and burning cars.
BCRI2_161109_188.JPG: After Alabama Gov. John Patterson declared martial law, National Guard troops broke up the mob, allowing people to leave the Montgomery church safely.
BCRI2_161109_190.JPG: A firefighter inspects the charred remains of the Greyhound bus that had been carrying Freedom Riders through Alabama on May 14, 1961. An angry mob firebombed the bus outside of Anniston. Fortunately, all riders escaped without serious injury.
BCRI2_161109_195.JPG: End of the Line
BCRI2_161109_197.JPG: National Guardsmen line the highway as the bus carrying Freedom Riders travels from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi.
BCRI2_161109_199.JPG: Freedom Rider naps, as does the soldier providing protection, on the bus from Montgomery to Jackson.
BCRI2_161109_201.JPG: As soon as the bus arrived at the terminal in Jackson, Mississippi, 17 Freedom Riders were arrested.
BCRI2_161109_223.JPG: Greenwood
BCRI2_161109_226.JPG: Rock Hill
BCRI2_161109_228.JPG: Albany
BCRI2_161109_239.JPG: Give Us the Vote
BCRI2_161109_251.JPG: Give Us the Vote
BCRI2_161109_253.JPG: Cars like the one shown here, which ferried riders to the Courthouse to register to vote, were another way of encouraging Blacks to vote.
BCRI2_161109_255.JPG: In an effort to establish basic rights and a foundation of political power for Blacks, a major campaign to education and register Black voters in the South began during "Freedom Summer," 1964.
BCRI2_161109_257.JPG: The Courthouse
BCRI2_161109_262.JPG: A Black woman registers to vote under the gaze of a White official
BCRI2_161109_265.JPG: The Freedom Vote, launched in the fall of 1963 by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), gave many Blacks practice in casting a ballot, and showed that they were indeed interested in voting.
BCRI2_161109_269.JPG: After a massive voter registration campaign in 1966, many Blacks had the opportunity to vote for the first time in their lives. (Atlanta, Georgia)
BCRI2_161109_270.JPG: A Constant Struggle
BCRI2_161109_274.JPG: ACMHR
(Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights)
BCRI2_161109_276.JPG: ACMHR president Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth greeted civil rights attorney Constance Baker Motley, as, left to right, Roy Wilkins, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. looked on.
BCRI2_161109_278.JPG: The Bethel Baptist Church was home to Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and Birmingham's civil rights movement. It was the target of repeated bombings in 1956, 1958, and 1962. Despite the violence, the church rebuilt and the movement continued.
BCRI2_161109_280.JPG: Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth
BCRI2_161109_282.JPG: Professor Carlton Reese
BCRI2_161109_308.JPG: Challenging Segregation at its Core
BCRI2_161109_309.JPG: On April 6, 1960, Reverend Shuttlesworth was photographed in a Birmingham police paddy wagon during one of his many arrests for demonstrating against segregation in the city.
BCRI2_161109_311.JPG: Birmingham: The World is Watching!
BCRI2_161109_313.JPG: Birmingham: The World is Watching
BCRI2_161109_315.JPG: Once a boom town full of optimism and opportunity known as "The Magic City," Birmingham was later referred to as "The Tragic City" for the bombings are violence that arose from racial segregation.
BCRI2_161109_317.JPG: Time for Change
BCRI2_161109_320.JPG: Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor campaigned to keep the city commission form of government in 1963. Although the city voted for change, Connor emerged as the most powerful supporter of segregation in Birmingham.
BCRI2_161109_323.JPG: After winning a special mayoral election against Eugene "Bull" Connor by 8,000 votes, Albert Boutwell takes the oath of office. (1963)
BCRI2_161109_325.JPG: Project C
BCRI2_161109_327.JPG: Multitudes jammed a civil rights rally at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963.
BCRI2_161109_328.JPG: SCLC President Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed throngs of people at a civil rights rally at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church prior to marching in Birmingham. (1963)
BCRI2_161109_331.JPG: Call and Response
BCRI2_161109_332.JPG: National States Rights Party leaders hung an effigy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. from a tree in front of their Birmingham headquarters to protest civil rights demonstrations.
BCRI2_161109_336.JPG: Rev. Ralph Abernathy (center), Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (left), and Rev. King (right), lead protest marchers in defiance of a court order on April 12, 1963.
BCRI2_161109_338.JPG: Birmingham police officers arrest Rev. King (left), with back turned, and Rev. Abernathy (right). (April 12, 1963)
BCRI2_161109_340.JPG: Jailed over Easter weekend, Rev. King wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in response to White clergymen who criticized his role in the demonstrations.
BCRI2_161109_359.JPG: The Children's Miracle
BCRI2_161109_360.JPG: These young people were among thousands of students who marched and were arrested during the Birmingham demonstrations in May, 1963.
BCRI2_161109_362.JPG: Arrested children wave from the buses carrying them to jail
BCRI2_161109_367.JPG: Eyes on the Prize
BCRI2_161109_368.JPG: This demonstrator holds his soaked hate and defiantly faces firemen after water from the hoses pounded him.
BCRI2_161109_369.JPG: Police officers and dogs attack demonstrators under the orders of Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Connor.
BCRI2_161109_373.JPG: Police officers handcuff and arrest a demonstrator in front of the Carver Theater.
BCRI2_161109_375.JPG: Members of the Birmingham Fire Department blast demonstrators with high pressure water from fire hoses.
BCRI2_161109_411.JPG: September 15, 1963:
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham is bombed, killing for little girls and wounding other children. On the same day, two Black boys are killed.
BCRI2_161109_423.JPG: March on Washington
BCRI2_161109_427.JPG: Walking to Freedom
BCRI2_161109_429.JPG: Staying Together
BCRI2_161109_431.JPG: Over 250,000 people, many more than expected, joined to march for equality, integration in schools, equal opportunity, and the right to vote. A symbol of home, the day was characterized by an uplifting and jubilant spirit.
BCRI2_161109_434.JPG: Some of the March's leaders are captured in portrait at the Lincoln Memorial:
Those standing include Rabbi Prinz (2nd from left), John Lewis (3rd from left), Rev. Black (middle), Walter Reuther (2nd from right) and Roy Wilkins (far right), A. Philip Randolph (2nd from right) and Dr. King (far right) are seated.
BCRI2_161109_435.JPG: John Lewis of SNCC had written a fiery, uncompromising speech for the occasion, but in deference to A. Philip Randolph, the elder statesman of the civil rights movement, Lewis toned down his words.
BCRI2_161109_440.JPG: A. Philip Randolph (right) had planned a march on the capital in 1941, but it wasn't until 1963 that he saw it take place. Bayard Rustin (left), deputy director of the 1963 March on Washington, organized the logistics.
BCRI2_161109_442.JPG: With themes of unity, racial harmony, and the passage of civil rights legislation, the March of Washington represented a coalition of civil rights groups, church organizations, and labor leaders.
BCRI2_161109_444.JPG: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church has a long and distinguished history. Originally founded in 1873 as the First Colored Baptist Church of Birmingham, it was one of the first Black churches in the city. The Byzantine and Romanesque-inpired brick structure standing today was built in 1911. Its architect, Wallace Rayfield, and contractor, TC WInham, were both black.
BCRI2_161109_447.JPG: Hub of the Movement
BCRI2_161109_464.JPG: This window is from the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. It hung in the balcony, where it escaped damage from the building. Panes are missing because they were used to repair other windows.
BCRI2_161109_469.JPG: A High Price
BCRI2_161109_492.JPG: The Word Reacts
BCRI2_161109_498.JPG: Six Young Lives Cut Short
BCRI2_161109_500.JPG: History has recorded her name as Cynthia Wesley, yet the young woman who lived and attended church with the Wesley family was actually named Cynthia Diane Morris. At the urging of her biological family, official death records were amended to reflect Cynthia's full name at birth.
BCRI2_161109_517.JPG: These items belonging to Denise were found with her body after the bombing. The shoes were on her feet when her body was recovered. The piece of brick was found in her skull.
BCRI2_161109_537.JPG: Selma, Alabama
BCRI2_161109_571.JPG: Fire department baton
BCRI2_161109_575.JPG: Voice from the Crusade
BCRI2_161109_609.JPG: The Election
BCRI2_161109_611.JPG: A New Energy
BCRI2_161109_626.JPG: Equality Through Economic Opportunity
BCRI2_161109_633.JPG: The Struggle Continues
BCRI2_161109_635.JPG: Bettering Birmingham
BCRI2_161109_654.JPG: A Living Institution
BCRI2_161109_660.JPG: Making a Vision a Reality
BCRI2_161109_680.JPG: Spring of '63
by Ronald Scott McDowell
BCRI2_161109_685.JPG: Rev. Edward Gardner
by Ronald Scott McDowell
BCRI2_161109_688.JPG: The Bell Project
BCRI3_161109_01.JPG: Justice Delayed
BCRI3_161109_03.JPG: Building the Case
BCRI3_161109_38.JPG: The church across the street (on the right) is the one bombed on September 15, 1963. After the tragedy, the congregation received $300,000 in donations for repairs, allowing the church to reopen on July 7, 1964. It still holds services every Sunday. The United States Department of the Interior designated the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
BCRI4_161109_04.JPG: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
BCRI4_161109_10.JPG: Bull Connor's Tank
BCRI4_161109_17.JPG: Tiananmen Square Protests
BCRI4_161109_29.JPG: Humanity Efforts in Darfur
BCRI4_161109_33.JPG: Solidarity Movement
BCRI4_161109_44.JPG: Music as Protest
BCRI4_161109_49.JPG: Oil Company Protests
BCRI4_161109_57.JPG: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
BCRI4_161109_64.JPG: Anti-Aparthied Movement
BCRI4_161109_83.JPG: Mrs. Coretta Scott King Memorial Monument
by Ronald Scott McDowell
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Wikipedia Description: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The Institute is located in the Civil Rights District, which includes the historic 16th Street Baptist Church, Kelly Ingram Park, Fourth Avenue Business District, and the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame located in the Carver Theatre. The Institute opened in November 1992, and had more than 25,000 visitors during its first week.
The Institute showcases a walking journey through the "living institution", which displays the lessons of the past as a positive way to chart new directions for the future. The permanent exhibitions are a self-directed journey through Birmingham's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles. Multimedia exhibitions focus on the history of African-American life and the struggle for civil rights. The Oral History Project, one of the museum's multimedia exhibits, documents Birmingham's role in the Civil Rights Movement through the voices of movement participants. The museum is an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program. Through this program the museum can acquire long-term loans and is currently hosting the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service exhibition "Let Your Motto Be resistance."
The archives of the Institute serve as a national resource for educators and researchers. They are a repository for the collection and preservation of civil rights documents and artifacts. The archival information system is computer-linked to the Birmingham Public Library and is a vital component ...More...
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[History 1900s (excl wars)]
2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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