Word: keever
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club in his hand when shot. Tuskegee students noisily disagreed; groups as large as 1,500 marched through Tuskegee singing freedom songs and demanding the death penalty for Segrest. Civil rights leaders asked Lyndon Johnson to send federal marshals to protect Negro lives and rights, and Mayor Charles M. Keever, calling the situation "very dangerous," said that he might ask for federal troops. "The murder shows," said Tuskegee Institute Instructor Jean Wiley, "that the image of Tuskegee as the ideal integrated Southern community was only a facade...