Michael Howley

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One of the “two niggers” was John Lewis, who had been brained by a wooden crate. A car driven by the Sullivan judge, Walter B. Jones, pulled up next to Lewis. The attorney general of Alabama, MacDonald Gallion, got out of it and dodged a flying Coke bottle in order to serve Lewis with Jones’s injunction barring integrated bus riding in Alabama.
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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