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Monday, January 11, 2010

Martin Luther King Jr. | 1963-65

Police use dogs to quell civil unrest in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963. Birmingham's police commissioner "Bull" Connor also allowed fire hoses to be turned on young civil rights demonstrators. These measures set off a backlash of sentiment that rejuvenated the flagging civil rights movement.