by Hayden Swanson

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samuelb17160 — 2014-08-28 17:52:41 UTC

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29274

Police brutality in the 1940s towards African Americans

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MLK influence in Civil Rights Movement

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samuelb17160 — 2014-08-28 17:58:47 UTC

No matter what you say, you can't tell the truth without being racist. You can't say amything. (129)

haydens17211 — 2014-08-28 18:01:30 UTC

CHAPETER 11 SUMMARY

haydens17211 — 2014-08-28 23:17:59 UTC

In chapter 11 Norris continues in Birmingham to find out why the police shot her dad, she also learns of a man named Issac who went blind because of police chief Lynwood Shull. She went on to find the chiefs brother and sister in-law and asked them about his brother to maybe find out why he had done it. Then Norris delves into the history of the segregation in Birmingham, so she meets up with Aubrey Justice who was a police officer in the 1940's. He tells her that there was a war going on back then and civil rights activists were getting attacked everyday and some of the police officers were good and some were bad and that's the way life works. She also learned of an attack that devastated a church two little girls died and 20 people were injured. Then Norris goes to A.H. Parker High school and learns of a civil rights protest, where many students went to protest, the police came and let dogs loose on them and the fire station came and hosed them.

samuelb17160 — 2014-08-29 16:45:48 UTC

http://books.google.com/books?id=z2e5QPlcPQgC&pg=PT827&lpg=PT827&dq=1940+alabama+police+treatment&source=bl&ots=TngpVMBwzV&sig=jBmWUMSyRQpElZ8jN3VM1OqkkIo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fmz_U930D4eBygTszoCgCg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=1940%20alabama%20police%20treatment&f=false