Eugene Harrison and another officer seated in a car during a student demonstration in Tuskegee, Alabama, to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.
Harrison became Tuskegee's first African American police chief in 1968. The murder and demonstrations were discussed in several issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No02_1966_01_08.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/3156 |