Talk:Kelly Ingram Park

The Foot Soldier of Birmingham
The famous statue of The Foot Soldier of Birmingham by Ronald McDowell, from the photograph by Bill Hudson is not mentioned, but the surprising story behnd it can be found here and the original podcast is here. In summary: the police officer was well behind the police cordon which had been erected to separate marchers from "onlookers" and was trying to restrain the dog; the 15-year boy had no connection with the civil rights march, had bunked off school for the day just to see Martin Luther King and had, in fact, only cut through the police cordon to avoid the marchers who were coming towards him; he also later complained that the statue had made him look "African" when he was "colored"; the sculptor has no previous experience of sculpting and was originally only meant to make preparatory sketches for the piece from the photo. - Martinevans123 (talk) 22:02, 16 July 2017 (UTC)