Remind you of anything?
What about this?
Or this?
Notice the Guardsman on the right of the picture (circled), taking dead aim at the photographer, Ruffner--who was in fact a student. |
Nothing galvanizes a movement like excessive force. The children who demonstrated in Birmingham and the children who marched on the hills of Kent State were ultimately victorious--the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were passed, de jure segregation was overturned, and support for the war had finally eroded, due in large part to those anti-war students, just a few years after the Ohio State Guard wheeled around as one and fired on a bunch of unarmed students.
Just a reminder... |
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