March to Protest Police Shootings
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@ Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
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Perry, GA.: Two hundred Negro marchers, protesting the shoot to kill mentality", step off on the first leg of their 110-march to Atlanta 5/19 afternoon. The march, sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is scheduled to arrive in Atlanta 5/23. The marchers are also protesting the killing of six blacks in Augusta and two in Jackson, Mississippi last week during racial flareups.
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