Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes
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- Jul 31 2010 3:14 PM
Kathyleen Bishop
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This historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Alabama state troopers and volunteer officers of the Dallas County sheriff's office tore through a column of Negro demonstrators with tear gas, nightsticks, and whips to enforce Governor Wallace's order against a protest march from Selma to Montgomery. This resource is part of the Historical Newspaper Articles collection from the EDSITEment-reviewed Web site Digital History.
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Grade: 9 to 12
Topics: History-Social Science, United States History
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HSS.11.USHGCCTC.11.10.5 Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the...
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