Word: etowah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GADSDEN, ALA. Flailing away with night sticks and jabbing with electric cattle prods, some 50 Alabama state troopers drove more than 300 Negro demonstrators from the lawn of Etowah County Courthouse. The Negroes had gathered to protest the arrest of 396 demonstrators during a freedom march on segregated downtown stores the day before. Later a shotgun blast slammed into a state patrol car as it cruised a Negro section of the city. The troopers inside were not injured...