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Representative Thomas Reed with Leon Hampton and Elbert Dawson, two of the first three African American state troopers ever hired in Alabama.

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They are standing in front of the Police Academy of the Alabama Department of Public Safety in Montgomery, Alabama. Tyrone Anderson was hired at the same time as Hampton and Dawson, but he declined to be interviewed or photographed.
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1972 03
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  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Dawson, Elbert
  4. Employment
  5. Hampton, Leon
  6. Law Enforcement Officers
  7. Legislators
  8. Montgomery (Ala.)
  9. Montgomery County (Ala.)
  10. Reed, Thomas

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