White demonstrators at the city limits of Cullman, Alabama, awaiting the arrival of a march organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to protest the upcoming trial of Tommy Lee Hines.
One woman is holding a sign that reads, "Keep Cullman clean. Keep Nigers [sic] Out!!" Tommy Lee Hines, a 26-year old man who was said to have the mind of a 6-year-old child, had been charged with raping three white women in Decatur. Because his lawyer argued that he could not get a fair tr...
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/124732 |