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Why Attacks on Protestors Are Giving Us Civil Rights Era Flashbacks

An essay about the battle for free speech and the intersecting struggles of civil rights and anti-war protesters

Allison Wiltz
5 min readApr 25, 2024

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1963 Police Dogs Attack Demonstrators| Smithsonian National Museum of AA History and Culture

For Black Americans, the grim reality of state-sanctioned violence against peaceful protesters is a tale as old as time…

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Allison Wiltz

Black womanist Scholar bylines @ Momentum, Oprah Daily, ZORA, GEN, EIC of Cultured #WEOC Founder allisonthedailywriter.com https://ko-fi.com/allyfromnola