Dudley Edmondson

EYEWITNESS: THE DEEP SOUTH

   
The community comes out to welcome a group of Minnesota school children to their town. Africatown was formed by a group of slaves who were known to be the last illegal shipment of peoples from Africa after the slave trade was outlawed in the United States
   
Students and teachers place their hands upon the face of history at the civil rights memorial outside the southern poverty law center in Montgomery, Alabama
     
  
A group of visitors stand outside the 16th street Baptist Church where on September 16, 1963 klansmen bombed the church killing 4 little girls
   
Montgomery resident Myrna Carter Jackson holds hands with a young women while telling her some of the city's history on steps of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institiute
   
A group of local folks enjoy a laugh in the streets of Albany, Georgia near Charles Sherrod Park named after the famed Civil Rights Activist
     
  
two young boys run through the streets of this small Mississippi town on their way home from school
   
This stolen SUV burned in a desserted parking lot in McComb, Mississpppi until the local fire department came to extinguish the flames
   
Historically this tree was used by local residence of this rural Georgia town to hang black men. It was said they wanted to use a tree on the main road into town so that African Americans could see what would happen to them if they stepped out line
     
  
Local Mississippi natives having a conversation
   
Local Jackson, Mississippi native Holiis Watkins stands in the driveway of slain civil rights worker Medger Evers on the very spot in which he died and points in the direction from which Byron De La Beckwith the fertilizer salesman, Klansman and Assassin would shoot Evers as he walked around the back of his car to remove a brief case from his trunk.
   
one of the more interesting road side buildings in rural Mississippi
     
  
An old barn on the byway in the rural south
   
A young boy on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia imagines what it is like to drive his father's school bus