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Photographer Mark Brunner has spoken about the enduring legacy of the pictures he took of a black teenager shielding a man from anti-KKK protestors in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1996
A photographer who captured an image of a black teenager shielding a supposed white supremacist from an angry mob has spoken about the enduring legacy of the pictures he took that day in 1996.
The iconic images was taken in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during clashes between the Ku Klux Klan and anti-clan protestors.
In June 1996 the Klan held a rally outside the city hall with a small group of Klansmen dressed in white robes and hoods.
Police dressed in riot gear and armed with tear gas were also present to protect the Klansmen from an estimated 300 people protesting against them.
A large crowd of anti-clan protesters spotted a man with an SS tattoo and a confederate flag T-shirt and identified him as a probable Klansman.
Then a woman with a megaphone shouted, ‘There's a Klansman in the crowd.’
In a split second the crowd turned from peaceful protesters into an angry mob baying for blood.
There were shouts of ‘Kill the Nazi’ and the man began to run - but he was knocked to the ground. A group quickly surrounded him, kicking him and hitting him with their placards.
Then suddenly a black teenager in the group – 18-year-old Keshia Thomas – separated herself from the mob and threw herself on the man to protect him.
A large crowd of anti-clan protesters spotted a man with an SS tattoo and a confederate flag T-shirt and after identifying him as a probable Klansman started to chase him
The powerful scene was captured on camera by student photographer Mark Brunner.
‘She put herself at physical risk to protect someone who, in my opinion, would not have done the same for her,’ Brummer recently told the BBC . 'Who does that in this world?'
Thomas, who still at high school at the time of the incident, now recalls how something within her caused her to empathize with the man's plight and so she stepped in to endanger her own life and protect someone she didn’t even know.
‘When they dropped him to the ground, it felt like two angels had lifted my body up and laid me down,’ she said.
Now in her 30s and living in Houston, Texas, Thomas continues to work to break down racial stereotypes every day, but prefers to concentrate on doing simple things rather than grand gestures.
Keshia Thomas, then 18, separated herself from the mob and threw herself on the man to protect him
‘The biggest thing you can do is just be kind to another human being. It can come down to eye contact, or a smile. It doesn't have to be a huge monumental act.’
The series of photos of Thomas stepping in to protect the unnamed man continues to inspire people to this day.
‘We would all like to be a bit like Keshia, wouldn't we? She didn't think about herself. She just did the right thing,’ said Brunner.
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This black teenager did the right thing. May God bless her, but if it was the opposite those KKK f****** would not have done the same. Love makes the world go round
much respect.
That goes to showthat Black people are peaceful people even when we are being discriminate against.
stockholm syndrome at work,.,,..,, save Massa! smfh
The picture depicts a bunch of Crackers getting ready to beat up one of there own Cracker and this Crazy Negroe in need of a perm jumps into save this Devil? They should of beat her ass right along with him. The KKK group probably said to themselves " This N**** gots to be crazy"! Keisha shame on you. Now you want to keep a low profile? You need to go crawl under a rock. Next time the Cracker discriminates against you Keisha just look at the picture to see how dumb you look. Did the racist Cracker thank you handkerchief head negroe? Black Power!
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