Word: tallapoosa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Black mixed with Red last week to make a bloody brew for Tallapoosa County, Ala. At a rural church in the woods outside Camp Hill several hundred Negroes met furtively by night. Ostensibly they came together to form a sharecroppers' union against what they were told was the oppression of white landowners. One Ralph Gray was posted outside as a picket. Inside, the management of the meeting was taken over by a black Communist from Chattanooga. He represented, he said, the "Society for the Advancement of Colored People." He told his auditors to demand social equality and white intermarriage...
...week most of Tallapoosa's Negro population had moved to neighboring counties. Still uncaught was the Red black from Chattanooga who had incited the outbreak...