"This came when we were looking for a way to commemorate the 50th anniversary without interfering with the city's unity work and the Bridge Crossing Jubilee and we had an opportunity to get Spider Martin's stuff," Lockett said. The first discussion was held last week and featured Don Brown, an instructor at the University of Alabama who worked as a reporter covering the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1960s, as well as Larry Spruill, author of "Southern Exposure: Photojournalism and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968." Lockett said the discussion is the second and final event in a series dedicated to the Spider Martin Retrospective, an exhibit of the pictures taken by The Birmingham News photographer during the Selma-to-Montgomery march and other civil rights protests. "It is a seminal book on first-person interviews," said Martha Lockett, executive director of ArtsRevive. In 1977, Howell published a book titled "My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered," which serves as an oral history of the civil rights era. Thursday in Selma to discuss the civil rights era. Raines, who was born in Birmingham, will take part in a public forum at Carneal ArtsRevive at 7 p.m. Howell Raines, an Alabama native who is the former executive editor of The New York Times, will be one of three people discussing the civil rights era in the South during a special forum Thursday in Selma.
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