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The Long Hot Summer (2020)

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The Police and the Civil Rights Movement

For a lot of people, police and unions were like oil and water, two things that should not mix. One of the main roles of the police during the first half of the twentieth century was to suppress worker strikes. Over the course of the 19 forties and fifties, more mayors and cities nation wide began implementing police reforms. So for the first time in a long time, they began to unionize again. Many askin american groups and in that umbrella, but also white liver groups and radical groups of various kinds. Ther matais protectan to but they don't.

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