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Integration Fights in Clinton Stimulate Southern Opposition
In Clinton Louisiana, a town of 1600, civil rights unrest arises as a militant CORE push and voter registration drive challenge long standing racial customs. Tension grows after a 1960s voter purge and a spate of pickets, store boycotts, and arrests test local economy and governance amid a white minority clinging to tradition.
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Courthouse
Louisiana
Mississippi Line
East Felice Inia Parish
Clinton
Henry Earl Palmer
Palmer
Doughty
William Brown
Tucson
Ariz
Congress of Racial Equality
Brown
Rarich
I. G. McKnight
McKnight
Emmett Collins
Collins