Unseen. Unforgotten.

(March 25, 1965: Mississippi Highway Patrolmen watch Civil Rights marchers arrive in Montgomery from Selma.)

During the turbulent Civil Rights Era, newspaper photographers took hundreds of dramatic photos which helped shaped the nation's perceptions of the struggle, but hundreds more were lost, stolen, or archived. Thanks to the efforts of Alexander Cohn, former photo intern for the The Birmingham Times, some of those unseen photographs are now published for the first time.

According to a story from The Birmingham Times, "In November 2004, Cohn went through an equipment closet at the newspaper in search of a lens and saw a cardboard box full of negatives marked, 'Keep. Do Not Sell.'" Inside were negatives from the Civil Rights struggle that were never published. As a result, Cohn "interviewed dozens of photographers, clergymen, elected officials, civil rights movement participants, historians and other witnesses to the events" and gathered even more unseen images.

You can see the results of Cohn's work in a special report from The Birmingham Times called Unseen. Unforgotten.