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Police Against the Movement

The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back

Joshua Clark Davis

2025

Princeton University Press

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Fifteen year old Walter Gadsden being attacked by police dogs during the civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama

Sanitizing the Civil Rights Movement

Contrary to the story being told in textbooks, media, and museums, the police were not neutral bystanders.

by Joshua Clark Davis via History News Network on October 14, 2025

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