West End High School Student Leading Integration Protest from Roof, 1963

A West End High School student stands on a roof speaking through a megaphone to a group gathered in his backyard that walked out of class to protest the integration of Birmingham high schools. Caption on photo reads: (BM4) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 11 -- SHOUTING FROM THE HOUSE TOP -- A young West End High student talks through a megaphone to a group gathered in the backyard of his home after they left school today. The walkout came on the second day of integrated classes. The group attempted to demonstrate and when police broke it up they regrouped in the yard a block away.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