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The Blue Backlash
Hoffman, Paul | December 7, 1964 issue

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The John Birch Society's drive started in the spring of 1963 with a "Support Your Local Police" campaign, undertaken apparently on behalf of Southern bull-whip constabularies then under fire from civil rights groups and federal authorities. But for more than a year, little effort was made to recruit policemen themselves, in either South or North. In 1964, Black communities came into direct confrontation with the police in a number of Northern cities. The conflict took the form of civil rights demonstrations and demands for civilian review boards to investigate charges of police brutality.

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POLICE -- Recruiting; CIVIL rights organizations; CIVIL rights; BLACKS -- Civil rights; POLICE brutality; DEMONSTRATIONS
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