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started organizing desegregation efforts there in georgia. the white backlash was such a radical backlash that their response to nonviolent direct action protests in their city, protests like were happening all over the south, their response was to arrest protest leaders and charge them with sedition. essentially with plotting an iner is eks to overthrow the government. and that was a capitol offense, a death penalty offense. for organizing nonviolent protests. they charged activists with capital crimes for which they would be hanged. the first four civil rights workers were arrested that summer. the gentleman you can see here in some of this footage, he s also an activist, he turned up at the courthouse initially to support the four civil rights workers. georgia responded by also

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