Johnnie Robinson – Photographs of the Birmingham Demonstrations by Bob Adelman, May 1963

Description

Six-page compilation of photographs by documentary photographer Bob Adelman depicting civil-rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963. The images show demonstrators, bystanders, police officers, police motorcycles, and scenes of confrontation and crowd control during the Birmingham campaign. The compilation identifies the photographs as “Birmingham Demonstrations” and dates them to May 1963.

Archival note: The photographs predate Johnnie Robinson’s September 15, 1963 death by approximately four months and do not document Robinson, Officer Jack Parker, or the circumstances of Robinson’s shooting. Their value within the case file is therefore historical and contextual, illustrating the civil-rights demonstrations, police presence, and racial environment in Birmingham during the same year as Robinson’s death.