Broken store window in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama, after a riot that broke out during a demonstration by the Tuskegee Institute Advancement League.
The students of T.I.A.L. were protesting the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker. The riot is discussed in the article, "Tuskegee March Erupts into Riot" by Mary Ellen Gale, which appeared on pages 1 and 5 of The Southern Courier for January 22-23, 1966. The issue is availabl...
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/4645 |
| Summary: | The students of T.I.A.L. were protesting the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker. The riot is discussed in the article, "Tuskegee March Erupts into Riot" by Mary Ellen Gale, which appeared on pages 1 and 5 of The Southern Courier for January 22-23, 1966. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No04_1966_01_22.pdf |
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