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Judge orders Alabama police desegregation driven recruitment
A federal judge directed the Alabama Department of Public Safety to start an immediate campaign to recruit Negroes until the state police force is one fourth Black. Judge Frank Johnson Jr cited the 1970 census. NAACP advocate Morris Dees calls it a historic use of population ratios. The current force is all white with 4 patrol troopers and 300 others. The state may appeal. the NAACP may challenge the test as discriminatory. The ruling follows Alabama public safety efforts and a general employment injunction. The NAACP and SPLC will pursue independent recruitment efforts as well.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Department of Public Safety
Frank Johnson Jr
Alabama
Morris Dees
National Association For the
Advanetiment
W. L. Allen
Department of Public Safety
Thomas Reed
Alabama Naacp
Elijah Campbell
Alabama State University
Richard Barrett
New York
Johnson
Allen
Michigan
Georgia
Indiana
Tennessee
George Wallace