Birmingham civil rights monument

Civil rights activist who took part in the 1963 protest, that became known as the “children’s march,” has died. As a young Black woman, Mamie King-Chalmers appeared in an iconic photograph about that civil rights demonstration in Alabama in 1963.

The city of Birmingham expects to spend about $100,000 on a monument honoring "foot soldiers" of the civil rights movement. The mayor's office says the…