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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) SCHOOL INTEGRATION. While You Sleep. Broadside 8-1/2 x 7 inches, reporting eight purportedly true examples of black on white violence in high schools around the state of Alabama printed on one side, with the Confederate Battle flag printed on the reverse * together with 12 other pieces, generated by the white citizen's councils in reaction to school integration. should be seen. Alabama, circa 1963-1964
In September of 1963, school integration in 144 schools in eleven states across the South began. In most areas things went off with little trouble. There were grumbles and some nasty shouts and name calling, but Alabama made the evening news around the country when Governor George Wallace personally stood at the doorway to the University of Alabama, and would not allow the black freshmen and women to enter. Material like this was distributed all over the South. The "Bogey man" of communism was used to discredit Martin Luther King Jr., and the whole civil rights movement.
