Don A. Hawkins Walks Past a Group of Segregationists, September 1963

Birmingham city council member Don A. Hawkins walks past a group of segregationists at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama. Caption on photo reads: (BM8) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 22 -- TRIES TO IGNORE SIGNS -- Don A. Hawkins, a member of the Birmingham city council and one of five city leaders named to meet tomorrow in Washington with President Kennedy, walks past a group of segregationist today at the airport. An altercation took place between Hawkins and some sign bearers moments before. The demonstrators accused Hawkins of being an integrationist and a tool of Mayor Albert Boutwell.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection