Racist Dogs Sculpture - Birmingham, Alabama
N 33° 30.971 W 086° 48.788
16S E 517353 N 3708529
This dramatic and disturbing sculpture is in Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park, north of the Baptist church where a KKK bomb killed four young African-American girls in 1963.
Waymark Code: WM48V4
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 07/22/2008
Views: 169
As part of a walking tour reflecting on Birmingham's racially-torn past, Artist James Drake's 1992 work depicts snarling police dogs leaping inward from two parallel walls. Visitors can stand between and try to imagine the terror, when civil rights marchers were assaulted with water cannon and the canines.
Also in the park are statues of an African American boy and girl behind bars, another memorial to the period in history when the city was known as "Bombingham."
Price of Admission: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
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