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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Kevin R. Johnson: Sweet Home Alabama? Immigration and Civil Rights in the "New South" - HuffPost - It should be troubling that Alabama, ground zero in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, gave birth to the harshest immigration law to date. Many famous incidents in that state -- from Birmingham Police Chief Bull Connor unleashing fire hoses on peaceful civil rights marchers to Governor George Wallace proclaiming "segregation now, segregation forever" in his 1963 inaugural address -- remain indelibly imprinted on the national imagination.
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