Letter from Edwin Strickland, staff director for the Alabama Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, to Governor George Wallace in Montgomery, Alabama.
In the letter Strickland discusses the attempted civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7). Based on information he has received, he reports that "the Negroes did not expect to march and did not want to march from Selma but did want to be prevented doing so....
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/2892 |
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