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Title: National Guard Confronts Anti-integrationist Mob
Date Created and/or Issued: 2014-10-28T23:57:16Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: Clinton, Tenn.: Tennessee National Guardsmen, armed with bayonets and rifles, are jeered by some of the mob of about 1500 anti- integrationists as the they clear the street in front of the Anderson County courthouse here September 2nd. The Guardsmen, augmented with tanks and combat equipment, were ordered here by Tenn. Governor Frank Clement following the outbreak of violence in protest against the enrollment of 12 Negroes in the previously all-white Clinton High School. September 3, 1956 1956-09-03 Desegregation; Education Image BW Photograph, 9x 7
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_african_american/134
Subject: African Americans
History
United States
Prejudice
Desegregation
Civil rights movement
Black Panthers
African American Studies
United States History
Source: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980

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