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1979: Alabama
Racial violence tormented Alabama throughout the year. Unrest in northern Alabama centered in Decatur, where the 1978 arrest and conviction of a mentally retarded black man named Tommy Lee Hines, on charges of raping three white women, continued to spawn marches and countermarches this year by the...
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