Police and Dog Attack -- Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham AL
N 33° 30.962 W 086° 48.796
16S E 517342 N 3708512
A powerful and evocative sculpture of police dogs attacking stands at Kelly Ingram Park, a memorial of the horrifically violent responses unleashed upon peaceful African-American protesters by city officials during the civil rights era in Birmingham
Waymark Code: WM106GR
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 03/07/2019
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Police and Dog Attack, a sculpture by James Drake, is deliberately set on either side of a narrow sidewalk, part of the Civil Rights walk at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham.
Barking, snapping police dogs lunge off the ground, launching themselves at you as you pass through the sculpture. The intent and impact of the sculpture is to inspire fear, giving visitors a small taste of what peaceful African-American protesters endured at the hands of city officials, including policemen and their dogs, during the struggle for civil rights and voting rights in Birmingham during the 1960s.
The sculpture is one of 3 sculptures by James Drake in Kelly Ingram park, which saw some of the worst violence the civil rights era, and made Birmingham a national symbol of brutality and government repression against citizens.
Civil Right Type: National Origin
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