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COMMEMORATING THE ACTION AT MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, MARCH 1965
As African Americans and white sympathizers in Alabama protested literacy tests and taxes devised to prevent blacks from voting, Governor George Wallace (1919–1998) used the police force to ruthlessly enforce crowd control. Herblock drew a fictitious memorial honoring the policemen who clubbed non-violent protestors on March 16, 1965, who were petitioning Wallace to enforce the Civil Rights Act. National reaction to the violence and pressure by President Johnson compelled Wallace to grant permission to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., to lead marchers from Selma to Montgomery.
Commemorating the Action at Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965, 1965. Published in the Washington Post, March 18, 1965. |