Counterdemonstrators Clash as Ku Klux Klan Rally in Forsyth County
In Cumming Georgia on a march to the Forsyth County Courthouse, Klan members in robes and white supporters clashed with civil rights demonstrators amid 1700 National Guardsmen. David Duke led about 400 whites, calling for a white civil rights movement. he was later arrested for reckless conduct. Authorities reported multiple arrests as tensions rose in a county with virtually no Black residents since a 1912 violence case.
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Cumming
Forsyth County
Dennis Brock
Atlanta
Brock
David Duke
Louisiana
National Association For the Advancement of White People
U.S
Duke
Rustic
Forsyth County Civil Rights March Draws Up To 20000
The Forsyth County march drew an estimated crowd of 12 000 to 20 000 people with activists arriving at the courthouse square after a 1.4 mile walk from a shopping center. Notables including Bernice King Jesse Jackson Coretta Scott King and NAACP leader Benjamin Hooks spoke amid heavy police and guard presence and hundreds of buses from Atlanta.
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Ozell Sutton
U.S. Justice Department
Office of
Atlanta
Georgia State Patrol
Televi
Sion
Forsyth County
Bernice King
Martin Luther King Jr
National Guard
Hosea Williams
Jesse Jackson
Coretta Scott King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Joseph Lowery
Benjamin Hooks
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Dean Carter
Hall County
Talks End: 3 Americans 1 Indian Kidnapped In Beirut
Gunmen abducted four teachers from a Beirut university area as a guard mistook them for police. The captors fled in a jeep with the professors, threatening bystanders. U S officials confirmed the kidnappings and sought their immediate release.
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Beirut
Howard Seemann
Humboldt State University
Aracata
Calif
Steen
Boston
Sible
Popadiuk
West Beirut
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Forsyth
Courthouse Square
Wesley Walraven
Northern California
Seemann
Beirut University College
Turner
University of Idaho
Polhill
New York University
Singh
Western Colorado University
Washington
White House
Roman Popadiuk
Thomas Kelly
Reagan
Camp David
Lebannon
Eritage Square
Balispring
J.B. White
Bali
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