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Whatever Force Necessary: The Politics of Police Brutality In the Post-Jim Crow South, 1968-1971
<p>On October 15, 1971, Memphis police officers beat Elton Hayes, a seventeen-year old black youth, to death. The incident sparked a riotous upheaval in Memphis, echoing the dramatic days of the Sanitation Strike and aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. In the days of civil …