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August 18th, 2009
05:04 AM ET
Pardons For Jim Crow Fines
They braved police dogs and water spurting from fire hoses at such velocity it left many standing naked and yet, the protests went on. Now, 46 years after the fact, Birmingham's mayor is offering non-violent demonstrators of the 1960s civil rights movement a blanket pardon.
Our T.J. Holmes spoke with Birmingham's mayor Larry Langford and Gwendolyn Webb-Appling.
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