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Can't Turn Us Around: Alabama's Foot Soldiers

Explore the movement to end segregation and guarantee equal civil rights.

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Between roughly 1955 to 1965, an organized movement fueled by Black Americans grew across the American south. The goal—an end to segregation and a guarantee of equal civil rights. And nowhere did the movement for Black equality fight its most crucial battles than in one of the most segregated states in the union—Alabama.

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