The more relevant, and worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively ...

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In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

"The riots that we are seeing in LA are a direct reflection" of ... Guard without the governor's request was during the civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Rep. Rashida ...

The current deployment has been ordered over the objection of the state governor and the city’s mayor, heralding a battle ...

Lyndon Johnson had good reason: to protect Selma-to-Montgomery marchers, ... restaurants and factories. Just as police brutality sparked the Watts riots, ...

Sixty years ago the nation largely moved in a positive direction to address the festering problems that sparked the Watts riots. I’m feeling less confident about where the country goes from here.

The last time it happened was 1965, when Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery. What People Are Saying ...

In 1965, during the civil rights era, President Lyndon Johnson wanted to send the National Guard to Alabama to protect participants in the Selma to Montgomery march. Alabama Gov. George Wallace ...