Citizens of Pleasant Grove, Alabama, holding a mock funeral for their school system outside the federal building in downtown Birmingham.
Pallbearers are carrying a wooden casket, and two men are holding a sign that reads, "Pleasant Grove City School / Born August 1969 / Died September 1971 / Victim of Pre-Meditated Murder by Fed. Judge Sam Pointer Jr. / Jeff Co. Board of Ed - Accomplice." After Pleasant Grove refused to pur...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/112663 |
| Summary: | Pallbearers are carrying a wooden casket, and two men are holding a sign that reads, "Pleasant Grove City School / Born August 1969 / Died September 1971 / Victim of Pre-Meditated Murder by Fed. Judge Sam Pointer Jr. / Jeff Co. Board of Ed - Accomplice." After Pleasant Grove refused to purchase buses to bring African American students to their segregated school system (ostensibly because it could not afford to do so), U.S. District Court Judge Sam Pointer ordered that the schools be returned to the Jefferson County system (from which they had separated in 1969). |
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